Socrates chords by Sawyer Brown
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was in a country band in the
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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 an old mechanic,
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name of Johnson, for some air
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And everybody called
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him "Socrates"
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Verse 2
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"Hey, what's goin' on?"
"Not much of nothin',
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how 'bout you?"
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And that's the way it's done
in our hometown
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He could talk a stream of nonsense,
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just as pretty as you please
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And everybody called him "Socrates"
Verse 3
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He said, "Fame and fortune are easily confused,
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as are luck and destiny
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Are you bein' loved, boys,
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or bein' used? 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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And everybody called him "Socrates"
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Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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I got to know him well,
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I even worked with him a while
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He had an old guitar we'd pass
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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
Verse 5
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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,
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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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And do you want me to
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check that oil?"
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Everybody called
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him "Socrates"
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Verse 6
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Yeah, the Christians found him crazy
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And the derelicts agreed
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But everybody called him
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Everybody called him
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Everybody called
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him
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"Socrates"
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Socrates
Sawyer Brown
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