Saints And Sots chords by Jimmy Ibbotson
Verse 1
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We're old, we're wise, we're gnarly,
C
D
and we don't fight fair
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G
We're old, we're wise, we're gnarly,
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D
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A
get out of our hair
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Artists and outlaws, ranchers and heads
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D
C
Surfing the cybernet, working the land
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D
G
C
Farm them in barricades on River Road
D
If that's what it takes just
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D
to be left alone
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Square miles and miles
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of scrub oak and sage
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G
Quiet reminder of lost yesterdays
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Canuck goose and eagle,
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D
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coyote and fox share the road with the hikers and the bikers and dogs
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You don't have to live here
to love what we guard
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D
It's just down the road
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G
sorta like your backyard
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We'll tend the garden
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C
and wa ter the fields
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and share what we can of
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D
the beauty of you
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Free men and women all ready to stand
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D
Strong backpack with
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their eye on the land
Em
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Making life that is de cent
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C
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Instead of just making a living
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Em
Until they are dead
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G
Just how much does one
person need to amass
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D
Before he can say he's
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G
completed his task
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G
C
And feel he can climb to his final reward
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The gold that he stole
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will sink him to the floor
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ś sacrifice sanity to love,
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hope, and trust ś
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On an altar of greed
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your God is money lust ś
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A plague on your people
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C
and also your heirs ś
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Who'll tear down what you built ś
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D
And waste it when it stares ś
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Can't you see all the problems
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development breeds,
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the news is appalling,
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G
your ethic is greed,
D
your lawyers are liars,
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C
they're loopholes, you're staged,
D
your audience tires
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D
and shouts at its rage,
free men and
Verse 2
C
G
all ready to stand
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Verse 3
D
Strong back,
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G
back with their eye on the land
Verse 4
Em
C
Making life that is de cent
G
C
G
instead of just making a living
Verse 5
D
Until the outdays
Em
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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Don't
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try to destroy it or build it on steck
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Your workers will find their
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G
machines dull and wrecked
D
No monkey wrench gang
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C
ever had any moan
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Reason to reason is what
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D
crawls in our donors
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Nick Frydener, Weed Ridger,
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State Bridgerdale
D
They'll chow down your
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gluttonous gashes
Ophel
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D
Your Wal -Mart bite is
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C
as big as your spine
D
Like you would be rotten
Verse 7
C
D
and forgotten in time
Verse 8
G
But the dreams of the saints,
C
the sots in these hills
Verse 9
D
Will echo and rumble
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G
till the gravel pit fills
Verse 10
D
With sweet sulfur hot springs,
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C
palm trees for shade
D
And is seated far
Verse 11
C
D
in the tavern we say
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C
We're old, we're wise, we're
Verse 12
G
gnarly,
C
D
and we don't bite fair
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C
We're old, we're wise, we're
Verse 13
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gnarly,
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D
get out of our hair
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C
We're old, we're wise, we're
Verse 14
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gnarly,
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D
and we don't buy fair.
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C
We're old, we're wise,
G
we're gnarly.
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D
G
Get out of our flow and pray in air.
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