Truth, Justice And The Blues chords by Mo Rodgers

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 (E minor)  (B minor)  (B major)  (A major)  (F sharp minor) Ten  (E minor) years later (G major) ,
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 (E minor) inner city blues  (G major) 
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Do  (E minor) you swear to tell the  (G major) whole truth
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and  (E minor) nothing but the truth?  (G major) 
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I  (E minor) say yes, Your Hon (G major) or,
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if  (E minor) it helps or cuts me loose  (G major)  (E minor) 
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I'm an innocent man,  (G major) 
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I  (E minor) did not do the crime
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 (G major) I  (E minor) was just in the  (G major) wrong place,  (E minor) 
at the wrong time
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 (G major) Look (E minor) ing for justice,  (G major) 
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 (A major) that's just  (E minor) what I found
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 (B major) Just us,  (B minor)  (A major)  (G major) getting door
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 (E minor) walked around  (G major) 
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 (E minor) Justice is truth in ac (G major) tion,
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and I'm  (E minor) movin' rather slow  (G major) 
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Judge  (E minor) says go straight  (G major) to jail,  (E minor) 
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don't go past  (G major) the door
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I'm  (E minor) down at the county jail,  (G major) 
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and the  (E minor) poor is all I see
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 (G major) If  (E minor) they ain't speakin' Spanish,
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I'm a  (G major) Harlech white boy
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It's  (E minor) a man who's lookin' like me,
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lookin' for  (A major) justice
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That's just what I  (E minor) found
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 (B major) Just  (B minor) me  get (A major) ting dog
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 (E minor) -dogged around  (G major) 
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Liber (E minor) ty  and justice for all
The pledge of allegiance says
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 (G major) But it's  (E minor) liberty and justice for  (G major) some
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If  (E minor) you ain't got the money to  (G major) pay
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Now  (E minor) the rich do the work all the  (G major) time
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 (E minor) And the poor keep toeing the  (G major) line
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But  (E minor) we all got to die,
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 (G major) now ain't that a bitch?
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 (E minor) That's how the poor  (G major) get
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back  (E minor) at the rich
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 (A major) Justice
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That's just  (E minor) what I want  (B major) 
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Justice  (B minor)  (A major)  (E minor)  (G major)  (E minor) 
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All  (G major) I  (E minor) got was a blues
I can't
Lookin' for truth, justice
All I got was a blues
All I I can't find the first suit
Lookin' for truth,
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Truth,  (G major)  (E minor)  (G major) all I  (E minor) got was the blues
What can a poor man do?
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My back (G major) 's against the  (E minor) wall
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Lord, don't  (G major) let me  (E minor) fall
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What in the  (G major) world can I  (E minor) do?
I got these local blues
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Truth, justice,  (G major) all I got was  (E minor) the blues
All I got was the blues
Hey, hey
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All I got was the blues  (E minor) 