Respectable chords by Don McLean

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

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

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

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