Respectable chords by
Don Mclean

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Key: Ab major

Verse 1
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
Ah, it ain't so easy is it?
C C 
 
D D 
 
You almost lost your place.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
And perhaps you're wondering how you're
C C 
 
D D 
 
going to cope with your disgrace.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
Well your wealth is well established and
C C 
 
D D 
 
your friends were never few,
And all the things they told you of
G G 
 
you're finding to be true.
Am Am 
 
Well if truth can free the guilty
C C 
 
D D 
 
while the innocent must die,
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
Then I respect, respect,
C C 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
respect the coldest lie.

Verse 2
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
And you talk of human justice while
C C 
 
D D 
 
you drive on fancy wheels.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
An d you push them to their limit
C C 
 
D D 
 
just to see how nice it feels.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
Well it doesn't really matter
C C 
 
D D 
 
if she's living or she's dead,
You just drive away forgetting that
G G 
 
your bumper's dipped in red.
Am Am 
 
Well if that's the kind of justice
C C 
 
D D 
 
that our hall of justice claims,
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
Then I respect, respect,
C C 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
respect old Jesse James.

Verse 3
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
And most cordially they caught you
C C 
 
D D 
 
and they asked you to obey.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
And they threw you into prison,
C C 
 
D D 
 
just in case you could not pay.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
Well King Arthur jousted Lancelot,
C C 
 
D D 
 
who stole away his wife;
And your lawyers jousted with the
G G 
 
court to save your precious life.
Am Am 
 
Well if living is what matters though
C C 
 
D D 
 
you lie with every breath,
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
Then I respect, respect,
C C 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
the ones we put to death.

Verse 4
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
And you won your case most easily
C C 
 
D D 
 
and soon you will be free.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
But there will be a million more
C C 
 
D D 
 
who lose their liberty.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
Not because of what they did,
C C 
 
D D 
 
but what they did not do:
They did not pay a lawyer or
G G 
 
a judge to see them through.
Am Am 
 
Why, they had no friends to call on
C C 
 
D D 
 
and they could not raise their bail.
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
Well if winning is what matters,
C C 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
I respect the ones who fail

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