Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was in a country
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band in the 1970s
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One night we had a flat on the van
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on the way out to Tennessee
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Asked this old mechanic,
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name of Johnson, for some air
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Everybody called him Socrates
Hey what's goin' on Not much
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of nothin' how 'bout you
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That's the way it's done
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in our hometown
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He could talk a stream of nonsense just
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as pretty as you please
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Everybody called him Socrates
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He said fame and fortune are easily
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confused as are luck and destiny
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Are you bein' loved boys or bein' used
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runnin' wild or bein' free
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He said the answers to your questions
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are more questions such as these
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Everybody called him Socrates
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I
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got to
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know him well I even worked for him a while
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He had an old guitar we'd
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pass around once in a while
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I never will forget the last
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few words he said to me
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When I finally quit old Socrates
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Do you know what you are
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capable of knowing
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Do your hands son ever touch the soil
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And do you love all that you
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are capable of lovin
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Do you wnat me to
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check that oil
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Everybody called him Socrates
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Yea the Christians called him crazy
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And the derelicts agreed
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But everybody called him
Outro 1
Socrates
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