Born Equal (Recitation)
Born Equal (Recitation)

Born Equal (Recitation) easy guitar chords by Carl Perkins

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    • Verse 1

    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 

    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, 

    because 
    I'm 
    po -folks, 
    po 
    -folks, 

    po -folks, 
    po -folks. 

    That's 
    what I am. 

    Call 
    me 
    what you 
    want 
    to, 

    I was 
    born 
    on 
    the poor 
    side 
    of town. 

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