We're Filling A Bottle For Ronnie chords by
Tom Paxton

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Key: C major•

Verse 1

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How wonderful that the President and Mrs.

Reagan

have appeared together on television

so the drug problem is

finally behind us

once and for all.

Nothing like tossing some slick

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G

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production

at something to make us forget all about it.

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C

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But I thought one of the President's

suggestions

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was worth a little examination.

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G

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C

C

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I go to my job every morning.

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I go to my job every day.

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my buddies and me

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we're all plumbers

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and we can't complain

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C

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for the job is okay so there we

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C

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are drinking our coffee

and smoking the last cigarette

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when in comes the foreman

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Am

Am

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all red in the face

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G

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C

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saying this is the hottest one yet so Louie

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C

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C

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says what's the big problem

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what's got your dander up

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C

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G

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C

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Joe Joey goes looking in the pa per,

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my friend, it's there for

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the whole world to know

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The president's gonna

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stop all of these drugs

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by testing us one at a time

So all of us lays down our

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tools on the floor

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and we busily start fighting crime

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C

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We're filling a bottle for Ronnie,

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we're filling it up to the brim

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And we'll never rest till we

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all pass the test,

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for we all think the world of him.

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C

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We're filling a bottle for Ronnie,

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and we'll never kick up a fuss.

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For we're only doing to that little bottle

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C

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what Ronnie's been doing to us.

The people who work in the

White House,

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C

C

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according to what I read here,

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Are gonna be fillin' their own little bottles

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G

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To make sure the message is clear

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C

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At cabinet meetings with Ronnie

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They're gonna be takin' a break

They'll call a recess at the

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Am

Am

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giver's request

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And they'll all have some wee

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C

C

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-wee to make

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C

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We're fillin' a bottle for Ronnie

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F

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C

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We're fillin' it up to the brim

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G

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And we'll never rest till we all pass the test

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D

D

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But we all think the world of him

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We're filling a bottle for Ronnie

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And we'll never kick up a fuss

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Am

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But we're only doing to that little bottle

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D

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C

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What Ronnie's been doing to us

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C

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They're gonna be testing our children

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C

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And you can be certain of that

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They're gonna be testing

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our old maiden aunts

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D

D

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And they're gonna be testing our cats

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C

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They used to go looking for traitors

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Who commonly hid under beds

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Instead of them stirring up all of this urine

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C

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They ought to try testing their heads

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We're filling a bottle for Ronnie

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F

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C

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We're filling it up to the brim

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G

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And we'll never rest till we all pass the test

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A

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D

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For we all think the world of him

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C

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We're filling a bottle for Ronnie

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F

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And we'll never kick up a fuss

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For we're only doing to that little bottle

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What Ronnie's been doing to us

Years and years

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What Ronnie's been doing to us

Thank you.

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Chords

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Am
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The original key of We're Filling A Bottle For Ronnie by Tom Paxton is C major.

The primary chords used in We're Filling A Bottle For Ronnie are C, G, F, Am, D, A.

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