Key: C major•
Intro 1
C
Verse 1
Verse 2
cottonfield for dignity
C
Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass,
young man lookin' in the shadows
That pass
Verse 3
F
C
G
CHORUS #1:
Somebody got murdered
on New Year's Eve
F
C
Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
F
C
I went into the city, went into the town
G
Verse 4
searchin' everywhere I know
F
C
Askin' the cops wherever I go,
F
C
"Have you seen Dignity?"
Verse 5
C
Blind man breakin' out of a trance,
puts both his hands in the pocket of
Chance
F
C
Verse 6
I went to the wedding of Mary- lou,
she said I don't want nobody see me
Talkin to you
F
C
Said she could get killed if she told me
what she knew about dignity
Verse 7
F
C
G
CHORUS #2:
I went down where the vultures feed
F
C
Heard the tongues of angels an d the tongues of men,
Difference to me
G
F
Verse 8
house on fire, debts unpaid
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C
Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid,
F
C
"Have you seen dignity?"
Interlude 1
C
Verse 9
In a crowded room full
of covered up mirrors
F
C
Verse 10
Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
Said he'd give me information
if his name wasn't used
Verse 11
F
C
G
CHORUS #3:
Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand,
F
C
steps goin' down into ta too
Land
F
C
I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light,
Despair
G
F
Verse 12
I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin'
Boat
F
C
Tryin' to read a note somebody
Interlude 2
wrote about dignity
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C
F
C
F
C
Verse 13
lookin' at his hands for the
Lines that were
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C
Verse 14
Englishman stranded in the
blackheart wind
Combin his hair back his future looks thin
F
C
Bites the bullet and he looks
within for dignity
Verse 15
F
C
G
CHORUS #4:
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed,
F
C
I went into the red, went into the black,
G
Dreams
F
Verse 16
so many dead ends, I'm at the edge of
The lake
F
C
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to
F
C
find dignity
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC F G Dm
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