Poor but Ambitious chords by Houdini

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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 (D major) Too proud, too bad,
too honest, too steel
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Employers please  (A major) listen to
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my appeal  (D major)  (A major)  (D major) 
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Night and day I'm walking the streets  (G major) 
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Nothing to  (A major) eat and nowhere to sleep (D major) 
So kind -hearted employers,
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 (G major) my case is up to you,
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 (A major) give me something to  (D major) do.  (A major)  (D major)  (G major) 
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 (D major) I'm not asking for social equality,
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to rank with the  (A major) rich in their company,  (D major) 
to drive around New York in their motorcars,
or to go to their penthouses
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 (A major) and smoke their cigar (D major) s.
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All I want is a job with a decent wage  (G major) 
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To exist now  (A major) and provide for all  (D major) age
So kind hearted employers,
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 (G major) my case is  (E minor) up  to you
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Give  (A major) me something to  (D major) do  (A major)  (D major)  (G major)  (A major)  (D major) 
From the day when I began to sing
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My mother told  (A major) me I'll be a king
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 (D major) She spoke to me confidentially,
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saying the older you  (A major) get,
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the better you'll  (D major) be
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And when you sing all the minor psalms,  (G major) 
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it will cause tri (A major) als and a sensation  (D major) 
So kind -hearted employers,
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 (G major) my case is up to you,
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 (A major) give me something to  (D major) do  (A major)  (D major)  (G major)  (A major) 
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 (D major) The reason why I'm appealing to you,
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I've got a wife, four chil (E minor) dren,
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 (A major) and a mother too
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 (D major) They reside in the West Indies
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and are depending on  (A major) me
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financially  (D major) 
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Friends, many days I feel I can die,  (G major) 
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I feel like  (A major) committing suicide
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 (D major) So, kind -hearted employers,
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 (G major) my case is up to you,
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 (A major) give me something to  (D major) do.  (A major)  (D major)  (G major) 
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 (A major)  (D major) 
I'm not the crooner, Rudy Fally,
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or the songbird,  (A major) Mr. Bing Crosby (D major) .
People, I want you to understand,
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I am not Guy Lombardo  (A major) to call White Man.
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 (D major) This is plain Papa Houdini,
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 (G major) the Calypso  (A major) King of the West In (D major) dy
And every man was born to be free
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 (G major) and to be happy from sup (A major) pression