Talking Pop Art chords by Tom Paxton

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Verse 1
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Talking Pop Art
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Well I went out for a walk last week
I passed a shop they call a boutique
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Fancy Dresses of every size,
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fancy wigs to pop your eyes
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Bracelets, diamond rings,
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stuff for women too
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Well I didn't want to see no more I

Verse 2
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slipped inside the grocery store
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I took down a can of beans,
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I pulled a dollar out of my jeans
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A fella said "Hold it,
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that'll be three hundred dollars"

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Verse 3
Well a feather could've knocked
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me down
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I mean, I knew this was a high
priced town
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But this was getting hard to take,
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I said "What the hell do
you get for steak?"
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He looked surprised,
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Said "It isn't just a can of beans,
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It's a work of art"
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Now I see what the poor man means He's

Verse 4
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proud of that little can of beans
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I didn't hear what else he said, I
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had my eyes on a loaf of bread
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"White bread four- hundred dollars; Three
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for a thousand"

Verse 5
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Well just about then a crowd came in
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And pickin's must've been
pretty slim
Because in just a minute, or
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three, or four
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They'd cleaned out that whole
grocery store
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They bought brooms
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Fought over watermelons
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One fella put down a pickle.
Said " I don't know much about art
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But I know what I like"

Verse 6
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Well as I stood there won
derin' why
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Two little fellas came cruising by
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Little tight suits, little black ties
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One of them looked at me and said " My how rustic,
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I bid a thousand"
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I said "I beg your pardon?"
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"It speaks, I bid five thousand!"

Verse 7
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So here I stand in a Su perman suit
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And everybody says I'm cute
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I tried to tell them but they
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would not see
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So they hang their hats and coats on me
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Well a job's a job
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Still if I had my preference,
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I'd rather be Batman