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