Why Me chords by Millie Jackson

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We lost

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father while serving this country
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This is a subject he nev
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er  understood
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Then why do we live here in poverty,
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in this rundown neighbor hood?
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He always says, why me?
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Mom, I  know you taught me right,
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why me?
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But you seem to stay uptight,
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why me?
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The answer's never easy,
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but still you try so hard to please me, yeah
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I worked two jobs to keep food on the table,
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nothing he needed was enough
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Night after night I wondered how would I be able,
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to keep the truth from him when he's so dissatisfied, all the time he can't
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Why me?
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Why do I have to live this way?
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Why me?
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There has to be a better day
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Why me?
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If I  only had my dad
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This country on me,
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they'd take it as a hat
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Yeah
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It must have been too much for him
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My phone rang late one night
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I recall a saying
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Ma 'am, we got your boy down here
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The truth was coming to the light
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He said they took my dad and
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now I've taken from them
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And I  don't think that's a crime
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My heart was heavy as I cried after him
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Son, can you forgive me?
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I've been lying all the time
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I thought I was
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God and what was mine
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I did all that I could do
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Why me?
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I wanted to spare this all from you
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Why me?
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I might die and go to hell,
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but I told a  lie
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Your dad is in jail, why me?
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You just don't understand, why me?
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I lost my son and my land, why me?
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All this life I have pretended
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Now just look at me and you'll
see how it's ended
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Why me?
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Why did it all happen to me?
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Why me?
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You got me here in misery
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Why me? I can't even go as planned
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When I  look at this, give me to stay in jail
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Why me? I got no reason to go home
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Why me? I gotta live my life alone
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Why me?
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It was the truth I never punished
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But now it's me,
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I'm the one who's being punished
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Why me?
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Tell me, why me?
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Why me,