Chords for Grandmother's Song

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Thank you.
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You know folks, [Eb] _ when I [Em] was a kid I was very [Am] close to my grandmother.
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[Gb] _ And she used to sing a song to me when I was just so [N] high.
And it always meant something to me. _
I'd like to do it for you right now because it does have meaning in today's world.
Even all these years, you know, even during the hip drug days,
you know, when everybody was supposed to be so cool and everything had double meaning.
And this little simple [G] tune would keep coming back to me.
And I think it kind of guided me through those years.
_ I'd like to do this song for you right now.
I think it [Eb] _
might [C] have a little meaning for you. _ _
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[G] Be courteous, kind and [G] forgiving.
_ Be gentle and peaceful [C] each day.
Be [E] warm and [G] human and grateful.
And [G] have a good thing [C] to say.
_ Be thoughtful and trustful in child life.
Be witty and happy and wise.
_ Be honest and love [D] all your neighbors. _
Be obsequious, purple and clairvoyant. _
_ Be pompous, obese and eat cactus.
_ Be dull and boring [C] and omnipresent.
_ _ Criticize things you don't know about.
Be oblong and have your knees removed. _ _
Be [G] tasteless, rude and offensive. _
Live in a swamp and be three-dimensional. _
[C] _ Put a live chicken in your underwear.
_ Get all excited and go to a yawning [C] festival.
_ _ Okay, everybody.
_ _ _ Be courteous, kind and forgiving.
Be courteous, kind [G] and forgiving.
Good.
Be gentle and peaceful each day.
Be gentle and [Cm] peaceful each day.
Be warm and human [C] and grateful.
Be warm and human [G] and grateful.
And have a good thing to say.
And have a [C] good thing to say.
Be thoughtful and trustful in child life.
Everybody on this.
Be thoughtful and [G] trustful in child life.
Be witty and happy and wise.
Be witty and happy and wise.
Be honest and love all your neighbors.
Be honest and love all your neighbors.
Be obsequious, purple and clairvoyant.
Let them hear you outside.
Be obsequious, purple and [C] clairvoyant.
Be pompous, [Eb] obese and eat cactus.
Everybody [Em] sing.
Be [C] pompous, obese [G] and eat cactus.
Be dull and boring and omnipresent.
Be dull and boring and omnipresent.
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Criticize things you don't know about.
_ Criticize things you [A] don't know about.
Be oblong and have your knees removed.
[G] Be oblong and have your knees removed.
Ladies only, be tasteless, rude and offensive. _
_ _ _ [F] Nail them in, live in a swamp and be three [G]-dimensional. _ _ _
_ _ _ Everybody put a live chicken in your [Eb] underwear.
[C] Put a live chicken [F] in your underwear.
Go into a closet and suck [G] eggs. _ _ _
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You guys are gonna be on a record. _
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_ _ Maybe someday, not mine.
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