Dignity chords by Nana Mouskouri

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Intro 1

Verse 1

Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel,

thin man lookin' at his last meal

Hollow man lookin' in a

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Verse 2

cottonfield for dignity

Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass,

young man lookin' in the shadows

That pass

Poor man lookin' through

painted glass for dignity

Verse 3
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CHORUS #1:
Somebody got murdered
on New Year's Eve
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C 
Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
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I went into the city, went into the town
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Went into the land of the midnight sun
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Verse 4

Searchin' high, searchin' low,

searchin' everywhere I know

Askin' the cops wherever I go,

"Have you seen Dignity?"

Verse 5
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Blind man breakin' out of a trance,
puts both his hands in the pocket of
Chance
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Hopin' to find one cir
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cumstance of dignity
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Verse 6
I went to the wedding of Mary- lou,
she said I don't want nobody see me
Talkin to you
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C 
Said she could get killed if she told me
what she knew about dignity

Verse 7
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CHORUS #2:
I went down where the vultures feed
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I would've gone deeper,
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but there wasn't any need
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Heard the tongues of angels an d the tongues of men,
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wasn't any
Difference to me
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Verse 8

Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade,

house on fire, debts unpaid

Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid,

"Have you seen dignity?"

Interlude 1

Verse 9
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Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears
In a crowded room full
of covered up mirrors
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Lookin' into the lost forgot
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ten years for dignity
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Verse 10
Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
Said he'd give me information
if his name wasn't used
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He wanted money up front,
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said he was abused by dignity

Verse 11
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CHORUS #3:
Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand,
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steps goin' down into ta too
Land
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I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light,
Dm 
in the bordertowns of
Despair
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Verse 12

Got no place to fade, got no coat,

I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin'

Boat

Tryin' to read a note somebody

Interlude 2

wrote about dignity

Verse 13
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Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure,
lookin' at his hands for the
Lines that were
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And into every masterpiece of
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literature for dignity
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Verse 14
Englishman stranded in the
blackheart wind
Combin his hair back his future looks thin
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C 
Bites the bullet and he looks
within for dignity

Verse 15
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CHORUS #4:
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed,
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dignity never been
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Photographed
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C 
I went into the red, went into the black,
Dm 
into the valley of dry bone
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Dreams
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Verse 16
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So many roads, so much at stake,
so many dead ends, I'm at the edge of
The lake
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Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to
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find dignity