Chords for Dion - Your Own Backyard

[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I've been sitting here thinking about when I started drinking.
I went on the dope, surely to change [E] my life.
I cried a tear in a beer for me.
I lost everything near and dear to me, namely my children [A#] and my [B] wife. _
_ _ I had my idea of having a good time, sitting with my head between the [E]
knees.
_ I knew everything there was to know, everything except which way to go.
I cried, oh God, take me, [B] will you please?
_ Yeah, many a time I swore up and down, I didn't need any of this junk that was going [E] round.
_ I can quit, let me finish what I got.
After all this stuff sure costs a lot, then I'll get my feet back [B] on the ground.
_ [E] Oh, I can't tell nobody how to [B] live their life, _ _ [E] even though inside we're [B] all the same.
_ [E] All those things, the toys I was playing [B] with, _ you [C#] know we're all losers [F#] in that game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. _ _
[B] Now since I've been straight, I haven't been in my puffs.
I'm not shooting downs, I'm not using [E] ups.
You know I'm still as crazy as you, even though I don't run out and cop the spoon.
But thank the Lord God I [B] had enough. _ _
[E] Now I've got a friend, his name is [B] Richard Renz. _
[E] Says you don't need to be stoned [B] to grow a friend. _
[E] Believe you're all beautiful people just the way [B] you are.
Tell [C#] me what has that stuff done for you [F#] so far?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
_ [G#] _ [B] I've been sitting here thinking, been waking, I've been thinking.
I don't have to sit around [E] no more on the door with my nose in the air.
You know, I can do anything that I want to do.
I do it straight, I do it so much better too.
And it's got to start right in your [B] own backyard.
I [E] said it's got to start right in your own [B] backyard.
_ _ [E] You know everybody has their own [B] beautiful backyard.
You [E] might have more wealth in your own [B] backyard than me.
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