Chords for Bob Snider - Darn Folksinger

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_ _ _ _ I better do it for you to change your mind. _ _ _ _
_ Just quick.
This is my only other protest [B] song.
[C] And I wrote this one because I was standing on the street playing guitar
and this guy came up to me and said,
how come you never write any protest songs?
_ I said, well, because everything's okay, but it got me thinking. _
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_ And I came up with one little pep peep, so I wrote a protest song. _ _
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There's a situation going on across this land [F] I personally believe is getting out of [G] hand.
_ Concern is certain _ individuals in the gathering of untoward [C] residual.
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And [C] I think it's time that something was said about [F] the gleaning of all this ill got [G] bread
because the ones _ responsible for the _ [D] impropriety are amongst most _ conspicuous in our [C] society. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [C] Oh, the birds [D] make birds [C] and the bunnies make [D] bunnies.
[G] Only thing a darn [C] folk singers [G] ever want [C] to make is [G] money.
_ [C] _ _ [B] _ [C] And the [G] rain makes puddles, [C] the bees make a honey,
and the only [G] thing a darn [C] folk singers [Gm] ever want [Am] to make is [G] money.
[D] _ [C] _ _ _ [F] Make a money.
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Ain't funny.
_ _ _ _ [D] There ought to be [G] a law _ _ against the [C] yawning maw _ _ _ of an [F] open case.
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It's [D] a big _ [C] disgrace. _ _ _
And a [G] terrible thing _ _ _ _ is [C] sickening. _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [C] Now the government is worried about our [D] welfare and [C] the _ [G]
industrialists [C] trying to clean [D] up the air.
Only thing a darn [C] folk [G] singers seem to care [C] about is [G] money.
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And the businessmen busy [E] delivering the goods [C] and the paper [D] company is [G] managing the woods.
[C] But these [G] raving street [C]-bound [G] bands of hoods are after money. _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [E] Looking for an [F] _ honorarium _ _ _ _ _ outside _ _ [E] of the [C] _
aquarium. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] Or a squawk, squawk, squawk along the whole [C] sidewalk. _ _ _
Or drumming on a corner.
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_ Or [D] tooting [C] on a _ horn.
_ Or [G] just a _ _ _ _ caterwauling on [E] old [C]
guitar.
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[D] You throw him a loon, he'll play you a tune.
_ Ruin the peace of an afternoon.
_ [C] Somebody [G] better do something soon is all [C] I'm [G] saying.
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_ [B] Or [D] he'll stand there wailing a live [G] long day.
[C] You throw [G] him a quarter [C] in the hopes he'll go away.
But he takes [D] as a [C] sign that you [D] want him to stay there [C] playing.
[G] _ _ [C] _ And [D] the pitiful _
[F] moan _ _ _ [D] brings down [C] the tone.
_ _ _ And [Bm] all that strumming [Gm] _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] is unbecoming.
_ _ _ They're [A] plain [F] _ unruly.
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except the oars truly, _ _ they ought to get [C] a [A] job instead of under the pretext of playing so-called rock and roll.
Be allowed to exact a toll and otherwise outright rob an _ _ unsuspecting and pedestrian [G] public.
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_ _ I do get a little carried away on this subject.
_ _ _ Now developers [G] are out there putting up housing [F] while these no-goods are off carousing.
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Now is it that these atonal [D] anarchists are allowed to roam the community with seeming [C] impunity? _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ [C] Oh, the diplomat is diligently _ [G] studying the dove.
Even the poet spares a thought for [D] love.
_ [C] Only thing a darn folk [D] singer's thinking of [C] is
_ _ denaros and zlotes and drachmas and yen and francs and cents and gold and mercurial green.
[Am] And _ [Em] _
[C] while the banker [G] is spreading [D] it all across the nation, _ _
pecuniary _ _ consideration _ is the _ machinating _ motivation of [G] you know who I [C] mean. _ _
[F] Johnny _ Paycheck, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Ray Price, [D] _
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Eddie Money, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] Ronnie Profit, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Johnny _ Cash, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ Buck Owen, _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] Hank Williams. _
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[G] Williams is their name for Bill.
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_ All they ever want to do is fill [G] their till _ by reaping more than they [C] are sowing. _ _
_ So [E] just [F] _ remember yodel-oodle-oo [D] in [G] love of money, _ yodel-ay is the root [C] of all folk song.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Thank you, _ thank you. _ _