Born Equal (Recitation) chords by Carl Perkins
Verse 1
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Or somebody say
that all men was created equal.
I guess you better break
that statement down.
Cause the folks what say
that just ain't never lived
in this poor man's inner town.
When you got very little to
smile about
and when your little children
look sad.
And when the little money it makes
don't go around folks that
ain't good that's bad now
I never asked to be born
down here
and this poor man's in the town
and all men's is created equal
let's stop slanging that phrase
around what's equal about a
man in a Cadillac
with the money and all the good luck
when I got a street full of
hungry children's
pushing me off in a 34
Dodge pickup truck
they tell me some folks
wearing mohaves
and shark skins
and even velvet suits my
bridge is so ragged
they calling me mr. see -through yeah
and I'm also hearing that folks is
Cuttin' away fat till there
ain't nothin' left but to lean
How are you gonna equalize
a porterhouse steak, man
To a can of damn pork and beans?
Takes me forty long back -breaking hours
of sweatin' to earn my little dab of pay
And I'd have on somebody else's britches
if I had a dollar in my pocket
the next day
I ain't mad, I'm just tellin' it like it is
Ain't nothin' wrong with bein' poor
Now, that's what they say uptown
But when you live down here
with these rats and these mosquitoes,
man
You look at life in a different way
That's lowdown
They got air -conditioned cars
and boats and houses
G
D
And that's a cool way of livin', man
Uh -huh, I cool me in a hundred degrees
with a advertisement in Johnson.
Don't y 'all come driving by here
on no Sunday evening
looking at this lonely end of town.
Don't keep saying you love us,
cause on Monday I don't see
none of you around.
Well, we've made it this far,
and we'll keep on scratchin'.
Look like that's the way it's gotta be.
But all men's is created equal.
Don't you try to put that stuff on me,
G
because I'm po -folks, po -folks,
po -folks, po -folks.
D
That's what I am.
A
Call me what you want to,
G
D
I was born on the poor side of town.
Born Equal (Recitation)
Carl Perkins
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