J edgar chords by
Ry Cooder
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Key: D major•
Verse 1
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Down
on the farm we had
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D
D

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a pig, J. Edgar was his name
He'd eat up all our victuals
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A

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and start back up again
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Just like them vacuum cleaners
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D

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they sell down in the lane
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Well, that's how J. Edgar
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D

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Hoover got his name
Verse 2
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Now, momma baked a cherry
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D

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pie and set it out to cool
So we'd have something good to
eat when we got home from school
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G

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J. Edgar climbed up on the porch
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D

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A
A

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and ate up all that pie
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D

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When we got home that mornin'
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D
D

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we heard our mamma cry
Verse 3
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J. Edgar, J. Edgar,
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just look what you've done
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D

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You ate up the cherry pie that
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D

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was for everyone
We made it through the dusters,
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G

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and the hoppers too
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D

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But God help us, J. Edgar,
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'cause nothin's safe from you
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Verse 4
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We had an extra man named Bob
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he wouldn't work a lick
He drank bad moonshine likker,
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and it al ways made him sick
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We rode to church on Sunday
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and stayed a while in town
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When we reached home at suppertime,
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Eb
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poor Bob could not be found
Verse 5
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He wasn't in the parlor, and he
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wasn't in the lane
Drinking in the pantry or
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sleepin' in the hay
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His hat was in the pigpen,
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that he always wore
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Poor Bob won't be drinking
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D
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moonshine likker anymore
Verse 6
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J. Edgar, J. Edgar it just
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don't seem fair
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You ate Bob our hired hand
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while we were at prayer
Let's say a prayer for old Bob,
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and our country too
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God help us J. Edgar,
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nobody's safe from you
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