Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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here; everybody's got a union card
They get up on Sunday,
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cook out in the backyard
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And they call this the great midwest
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Where the cornfields row and flow
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They're all five years ahead
of their time
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Or twenty-five behind; I just don't know
their four-wheel drives
drives
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And how much money they're
And they like to brag about how
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party it up, start a fight
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And they call this the great midwest
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Sure make a hell of a car
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Growin' up under normal conditions,
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television and radio
That's just about all of this whole world
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That any of us get to see,
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get to know
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Where you sacrifice body and soul
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And no one really wants to get even
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Most of us find it hard enough just lettin' go
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Don't get me wrong, I ain't complaining
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That's just the way things are around here
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And there's a fu ture car
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ryin' my name on it
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you gonna stick around here? You better get on it
If you're gonna stick around here
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You better make yourself some real good friends
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Well, I wasn't born with a
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life
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Hell, I talk to you all night
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And they call this the great midwest
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Where livin' is just gettin' by
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And people trade in their happiness
Outro 1
a big money deal in the sky
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