Well-Spoken Moppers chords by Mighty Sparrow

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Verse 1
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Half the
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trouble in the world
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today comes from people who don't know what to say
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They like to use word
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s that's big and long
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and they know when they're
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using it wrong
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Some moppers come by
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me last Christmas day,
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eat me out and drink me in the worst of way.
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I had a swell time, they started to boast,
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but before I go, let me make a toast.
And they tell me, yes to my good friend,
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I wish that he and everybody live in enmity.
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I wish him ill health and adversity,
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disaster and strife eternally.
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My second devo  tion
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I   grabbed
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me cutlass and I tell me louse
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You better get to hell out me house
You can't do him that
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And next one said to me
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What he said should make you feel happy
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I was shocked because this
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was a friend of mine
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I tired lend him money,
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we just get along fine
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So when he say he like the remark
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I say he must be booze
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and making skylark
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But he said,
me a cup of sorrow never run dry
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Me misfortune follow you
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until the    day you die
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You are such a nice, quiet, illiterate lad
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Your obnoxious company
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make me feel glad
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I said my devotion
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Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
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ho ho ho
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A  long monga one they call Dabrio
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Say three chairs for him sip his paro
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The fame and fortune that
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he has accomplished
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I wish it all would rapidly diminish
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He's a fellow that I
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have always despised
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I   don't know why people
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just watch him and criticize
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His stupidity is unsurpassed,
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in other words,
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he's a hypothetical ass
His friends bring him joy
and frustration,
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impose on him and lift him
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to degradation
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He's a jolly good fellow and
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a kind reprobate,
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unscrupulous and always incon
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siderate
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I couldn't believe people
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could be so rude,
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repaying kindness with ingratitude.
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Lord, well I grind in like a sugar mill,
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I ain't know which one of them to kill.
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But I grab me cutlass and I pelt a  bloke
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I never see drunk
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en people take off so
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Me wife laugh, she laugh till she choke
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And tellin' me I must learn
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to take a joke
Bum -bum -lummically speaking,
you're a pussy -istic man
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She said, most ill -acquitably
full of shit -ification
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Your   splendiferous views
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are too cat's -astical
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To country more radical,
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to pitch in is the call