Key: F major
Verse 1
D
Socrates was onto something
centuries ago
When he said to know yourself
is all you need to know
G
At first I didn't get it,
wrote him off as old and bent
D
Now I've got some years behind me,
I know what he meant
A
It's the voyage of a lifetime,
it's the road that never ends
G
It's staying straight and true
when everybody's got the bends
A
It's working out what I'm about
G
and letting others be
D
So thank you, Socrates
Moses heard the voice of God
and transcribed every word
Thou shalt not this, thou shalt not that,
was all he ever heard
G
Well we can't really blame him,
Gm
he was a victim of his times
G
D
But let's thank God for Jesus,
he took a different line
A
Like love your brother as yourself,
that's all you need to do
G
If he asks you for your shirt,
Gm
G
give him your jacket too
A
Stick with me and I'll show
G
you a place in paradise
D
Thank you Jesus Christ
A
I have to say my heroes
G
never were the spotting kind
D
I gravitated to the ones
A
who exercised my mind
And even though they're
dead and gone
G
And that contribution lingers
D
A
only in me
D
Imperfectly
Elgin Spitzer had it figured out
He got the third degree
Philosophy and medicine
And of course, theology
G
And somewhere in his spare time
He wrote the book on Bach
D
For him all human knowledge
Was a brisk walk in the park
G
A
Till he realized that action
Said much more than words could say
G
Built a clinic in the jungle
For the folks in Lambonet
A
Taught us all the simple truth
G
Of reverence for life
D
Dsus4
Thank you Albert Schweitzer
D
Mortimer
J. Adler was a man with great ideas
Believed that education starts
at the end of our school years
G
Designed a lifelong reading plan
from Homer through to Freud
D
Making sure our minds at least
are never unemployed
A
Proved that books are pointless
if you leave them on a shelf
G
That we don't know just what we know
D
G
Till we show someone else
A
Without him I don't think this song
G
Could have come this far
D
Thank you Mortimer
Thank you Albert Schweitzer
G
D
Thank you Jesus Christ
G
D
Thank you, Socrates
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G A Gm Dsus4
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