Rubaiyat (Excerpt) chords by Woody Guthrie
Verse 1
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Don't give your money,
not one penny spent
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To learn the secret of your life, my friend
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One little hair divides the false and true,
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And on that little hair it starts and ends.
One hair, I guess,
divides the false and true,
The false and true.
Find this one hair,
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no matter what you do,
What you do.
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this hair will lead you to the drinking room
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and to the wives of your great
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landlord too. I rolled in pain down on
that sawdust floor the drinking floor I
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prayed to heaven to open its golden door I
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groaned and yelled how long must I roll
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You must roll here till you are you no more
I wasted lots of hours in a hot pursuit
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Of this and that argument and dispute
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Better to kiss the lip with laughing grapes
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Than eating sad, or proud,
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or bitter fruit I'm glad I went off on my big carouse
And took my second wife
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into my house
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Divorced old dried -up reason
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out of my bed
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Took this daughter of the vine to spouse
What is and isn't I prove by rule and line
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And up and down by logic I define I
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guess you thought I was a deep wise man
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I never went deep in anything but wine
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My drinkin' door eased open last night
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I saw a lady with an angel shape
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She handed me a glass of wisdom juice
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I drank it down and found that
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the juice was great.
This grapey juice can
prove a billion things,
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Can make our racial haters dance in rings,
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Can make our seventy -two
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fighting priests and princes
Sing sinful songs and tease my
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king and queen,
Queens and kings both.
Would
God grow my good wine,
then would he dare, he wouldn't dare,
To make my viney grape a
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trap and a snare?
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I'd drink my wine and bless your
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sweet red mouth,
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If wine's a curse,
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well, then who set it there?
you
Rubaiyat (Excerpt)
Woody Guthrie
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