Don't Make Sense Does It chords by Carson Robison

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Verse 1
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 (A major)  (E minor)  (A major)  (E minor)  (D major) The longer I live in  (B major) this cockeyed world,
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the  (E major) plainer  (B major) I can see  (E minor) the truth  (A major) of that old
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saying,  (E minor)  (A major) what fools  (D major) we  (A major) mortals be.  (D major) 
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They say we're all getting smarter (B major) , but I'm  (E minor) afraid I  (B major) can't agree,  (E minor) 
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cause  (A major) here's just a
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 (E minor) few of the thing (A major) s we do that
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 (D major) don't make  (G major) sense to me.  (D major) 
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You send your boy to a  (B major) high -toned school and
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spend a lot of dough  (E minor) for  (A major) a musical education
with
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Profess (D major) or
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So  (A major) -and -so.  (D major) 
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Now you just know he was born for  (B major) the opera,
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but brother, wasn't you wrong?  (E minor) 
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Because  (A major) he winds  (B major) up with a  (D major) ten -gallon
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 (A major) hat singing  (D major) a  hillbilly song.
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You drive all day to at (E flatdim) tend     a sale and  (E minor) the auctioneer  (B major) starts to  (E minor) spiel,
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 (E major) and you outbid
the other guy.
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Boy,  (A major) how proud you feel.
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You  (D major) buy the thing  (B major) for two and
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a half and you  (E minor) drive
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back  (B major) home and  (E minor) then you find they've got the  (A major) same darn
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thing  (D major) right in the five and ten.  (A major)  (E minor)  (A major)  (E minor)  (D major) 
Now the
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Joneses buy a brand  (B major) new car and the
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Smiths  (E minor) say,  (B major) huh, pulling a  (E minor) fast one.
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 (G major) So  (A major) what do they do but buy one too,
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though they  (D major) ain't done paying for the last one.
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Now they both  (B major) know the other one's broke,
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and somebody's bound to sue  (G major) them,
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and the  (A major) kids won't get so much to eat,
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but they can't  (D major) let the
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Joneses  (G major) outdo them.  (D major) 
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You send your daughter to col (E flatdim) lege,
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 (B major) and a  (E minor) great career you plan.
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Then just  (E major) before graduation,
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she  (A major) meets that nice young man.
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She  (D major) winds up in his kitchen,
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 (B major) a bril (E minor) liant girl,  (B major) that's true,
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 (E minor) But
Latin and
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 (A major) Greek don't  (D major) help her a
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 (A major) bit to  (D major) make a good
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Irish stew.  (A major)  (E minor)  (A major)  (D major) 
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Doctors and nurses rush  (B major) around and work  (E minor) with all  (B major) their might to  (E minor) 
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 (G major)  (A major) save the life of a bandit who got  (D major) shot up in  (A major) a fight.  (D major) 
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They patch him up and get  (B major) him well
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after slaving  (E minor)  (B major) night and day.
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 (E minor) and then two  (A major) weeks later
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 (E minor) they hang  (A major) the guy.
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Kind of  (D major) wasted effort,  (G major) I'd say.  (D major) 
Now the
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Indians had the right  (E flatdim) idea,
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a  (B major) system without any  (E minor) flaws.
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No  (E major) income tax and no rent to pay and the
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 (A major) work was done by the squaws.
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 (D major) Never a thing to worry  (B major) about,
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just  (E minor) eat and sleep and get fat.
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And  (A major) the poor dum (E minor) b white man  (A major) thought that he
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could im (D major) prove on a system like that.  (A major)  (E minor)  (A major) 
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 (D major) You