One Million Lawyers
One Million Lawyers

One Million Lawyers easy guitar chords by Tom Paxton

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    • Verse 1
    ONE MILLION LAWYERS 

    By Tom Paxton 

    Human
    kind 
    has survived 
    some 
    dis
    asters, 

    I'm sure. 

    Like 
    locusts 
    and flash 
    floods 
    and flu. 

    There's 
    never 
    a moment 
    when 

    we've 
    been 
    secure 

    From 
    the 
    ills 
    that 
    the 
    flesh 
    is heir 
    to. 

    If 
    it 
    isn't 
    a 
    war, 

    it's 
    some 
    gruesome 
    disease. 

    If 
    it 
    isn't 
    disease, 
    then 
    it's 
    war. 

    But there's 
    worse 
    still 
    to come, 

    and 
    I'm 
    asking 
    you 
    please 

    How the 
    world's 
    gonna 
    take 

    any 
    more? 

    (CHORUS:) 

    Verse 2
    In 
    ten 
    years 
    we're gonna 

    have 
    one 
    million 
    lawyers, 

    One 
    million 
    lawyers, 
    one 
    million 
    lawyers. 

    In 
    ten 
    years 
    we're 
    gonna 

    have 
    one 
    million 
    lawyers. 

    How 
    much 
    can 
    a poor 
    nation 

    stand? 

    Verse 3

    The world 
    shook 
    with 

    dread 
    of 
    Atilla the 
    Hun 

    As 
    he conquered 
    with fire 
    and steel, 

    And 
    Genghis 
    and 
    Kubla 
    and 

    all 
    of 
    the 
    Kahns 

    Ground a 
    groaning 
    world 

    under 
    the 
    heel. 

    Disaster, 
    disaster, 

    so 
    what else 
    is 
    new? 

    We've 
    suffered 
    the 
    worst 
    and 
    then 
    some. 

    So 
    I'm 
    sorry 
    to tell 
    you, my 

    suf
    fering 
    friends, 

    Of the 
    terrible 
    scourge 
    still 
    to 

    come. 

    Interlude 1


    Verse 4
    (CHORUS) 

    (BREAK:) 

    Oh, a suffering 
    world 
    cries 
    for 
    mercy 

    As 
    far 
    as 
    the eye 
    can see. 

    Lawyers 
    around 
    every 
    bend 
    in 
    the 
    road, 


    Laywers in 
    every 
    tree, 

    Lawyers 
    in 
    restaurants, 

    lawyers 
    in 
    clubs, 

    Lawyers 
    behind 
    every 
    door, 

    Behind 
    windows 
    and 
    potted 
    plants, 

    shade 
    trees 
    and shrub
    s, 

    Lawyers 
    on 
    pogo sticks, 

    lawyers 
    in 
    polit
    ics! 

    Interlude 2



    Verse 5
    (CHORUS) 
    In spring 

    there's 
    tornadoes 

    and 
    rampaging 
    floods, 

    In 
    sum
    mer 
    it's 
    heat stroke 

    and 
    draught. 

    There's 
    Ivy 
    League 
    football 

    to 
    ruin 
    the fall, 

    It's 
    a ter
    rible 
    scourge, 
    without 
    doubt. 

    There 
    are 
    blizzards 
    to 
    batter 

    the shiv
    ering 
    plain. 

    There 
    are 
    dust 
    storms 
    that strike, 

    but far 
    worse 

    Is 
    the threat 
    of 
    disaster 
    to shrivel 
    the brain, 

    It's 
    the 
    threat 
    of 
    implacable 
    curse. 

    Verse 6
    In 
    ten 
    years 
    we're 
    gonna 

    have 
    one 
    million 
    lawyers, 

    One 
    million 
    lawyers, 
    one 
    million 
    lawyers. 

    In 
    ten 
    years 
    we're 
    gonna 

    have 
    one 
    million 
    lawyers. 

    How 
    much 
    can 
    a poor 
    nation 
    stand? 

    How 
    much 
    can 
    a poor 
    nation 
    stand 

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