Key: F major
Intro 1
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Bm
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Verse 1
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Elmore James
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Street survivor selling walking canes
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Says: "Give your babies
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holy names for me"
Verse 2
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Now I don't know, but I've been told
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You never grow up, you'll never get old
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You can watch the world
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being bought and sold
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Verse 3
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Sometimes it gets a little rough
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going an uphill mountain
Verse 4
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Build a house, make it home
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Don't the yard look pretty
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when it?s overgrown?
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Standing six feet tall
Verse 5
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This ain't right, but it's a livin'
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You got to take just what
you are given
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'Cause luck only matters with
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And sometimes not at all
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Verse 6
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Sometimes it gets a little rough
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going an uphill mountain
Interlude 1
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C
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Verse 7
I've seen you already
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honey what I propose is that
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you see me without mine?
Verse 8
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Tell John Henry and Cassius Clay
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Swinging iron for a living is a hell of a way
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But whatever you do don't
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Verse 9
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Sometimes it gets a little rough
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going an uphill mountain
Outro 1
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ChordsD G A Bm C
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