Open The Door, Richard chords by Louis Jordan

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Verse 1
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Open the
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door   Richard,
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open the door and let me in
Open the door Richard, Richard
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why don't you open that door
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I met old Zeke standing on
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the corner the other day
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That cat sure was booted with liquid
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He was what? He was obnoxicated.
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He was what? He was inebriated.
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He was what?
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Well, he was just playing drunk.
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Well, all right, good.
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He sure was salty with the
bartender.
The bartender's trying to make
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him buy another drink.
Zeke told the bartender,
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ain't no need of me buying no drinks
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when everybody else is buying them.
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I'm gonna drink to everybody's health
till I ruin my own.
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Open the door, Richard!
Why, he don't know who he's
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throwing out of that joint.
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Why, I'll go back in that joint
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and take a short stick
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and bust it down to the ground.
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Open it down, Richard!
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But I   hate to be caught out on
the street like this
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cause it makes you look so common.
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And I know I ain't common
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cause I got class I ain't never used yet.
But I guess I better get on in the house
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cause I      don't want my pastor
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to catch me  out like this.
Hey, Richard!
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Open the door!
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Now look at that old woman
across the street,
done stuck her head out
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of the win dow,
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calling her sister.
Look at her punching her sister,
saying, ain't that him?
Ain't that him?
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Yes, it's me, and I'm drunk again!
Open the door, Richard!
I know he's in there
cause I got on the clothes.
They can't throw him out
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because I   owe just as much
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back rent here as he does.
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Imagine that old woman
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charging us 3 a month
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and   getting mad because we
12 months in the arrears.
Come meet me last Thursday
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saying, ain't you boys going
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to give me some back rent?
I told her she'd be lucky
if she got some front rent.
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Open the door, Richard.
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Hey, Richard, open the door.
Cause I'm standing here
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scratching in my pants pocket
And standing here groping
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in my coat pocket
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And standing here feeling
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in my shirt pocket
And I can't find the key
Hey open the door Richard
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Open the door     Richard
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Open the door   and let me in
Open the door, Richard.
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Richard, why don't you open
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that door?
Open the door, Richard!