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One Million Lawyers

One Million Lawyers easy guitar chords by Tom Paxton

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  • Em

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  • Em

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  • Verse 1
    D

    ONE MILLION LAWYERS
    G

    By Tom Paxton
    D
    G

    Humankind has survived some disasters,

    I'm sure.
    C
    G

    Like locusts and flash floods and flu.
    D

    There's never a moment when
    G

    we've been secure
    Em
    A
    D

    From the ills that the flesh is heir to.

    If it isn't a war,
    G

    it's some gruesome disease.
    D
    G

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

    But there's worse still to come,
    G

    and I'm asking you please
    E
    A

    How the world's gonna take
    D

    any more?

    (CHORUS:)
    Verse 2
    G

    In ten years we're gonna

    have one million lawyers,
    D
    G

    One million lawyers, one million lawyers.

    In ten years we're gonna

    have one million lawyers.
    D

    How much can a poor nation

    stand?
    G
    D
    Verse 3
    G

    D

    The world shook with
    G

    dread of Atilla the Hun
    C
    G

    As he conquered with fire and steel,
    D

    And Genghis and Kubla and
    G
    Em

    all of the Kahns
    A

    Ground a groaning world
    D

    under the heel.

    Disaster, disaster,
    G

    so what else is new?
    D
    G

    We've suffered the worst and then some.
    C

    So I'm sorry to tell you, my
    G

    suffering friends,
    E
    A

    Of the terrible scourge still to
    D

    come.
    Interlude 1
    G
    D
    G

    D
    G

    Verse 4
    D

    (CHORUS)

    (BREAK:)
    G

    Oh, a suffering world cries for mercy
    D
    G

    As far as the eye can see.
    D
    G
    Em

    Lawyers around every bend in the road,
    A

    D

    Laywers in every tree,

    Lawyers in restaurants,
    G

    lawyers in clubs,
    D
    G

    Lawyers behind every door,
    C

    Behind windows and potted plants,
    G
    E

    shade trees and shrubs,
    A

    Lawyers on pogo sticks,
    D
    G
    D

    lawyers in polit ics!
    Interlude 2
    D
    G
    D
    G

    D
    G
    D
    G


    Verse 5
    D

    (CHORUS) In spring

    there's tornadoes
    G

    and rampaging floods,
    C
    G

    In summer it's heat stroke

    and draught.
    D

    There's Ivy League football
    G

    to ruin the fall,
    Em
    A
    D

    It's a terrible scourge, without doubt.

    There are blizzards to batter
    G

    the shivering plain.
    D

    There are dust storms that strike,
    G

    but far worse
    C
    G

    Is the threat of disaster to shrivel the brain,
    E
    A
    D

    It's the threat of implacable curse.
    Verse 6
    G

    In ten years we're gonna

    have one million lawyers,
    D
    G

    One million lawyers, one million lawyers.

    In ten years we're gonna

    have one million lawyers.
    D
    G

    How much can a poor nation stand?
    E
    A
    D
    G

    How much can a poor nation stand

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