WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Todd Snider - Happy New Year Ukulele | Ver. 1
my first posting, love this song but couldn't find it. so here it is, i think its pretty
accurate. You gotta listen to the song to the song to get a good feel. I hate that when
i copy this from one place to another the chords jump to different spots! whats up with that?
1 song, 1 page, everything in place - strive for it!
Todd Snider - Happy New Year
Capo on 5th fret
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happy new year everybody there's an overweight man with an overweight woman
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on a sofa just watching TV hes yelling his opinion at the television she
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looks up from her food and agrees they got two bumper stickers on there pick
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up truck they keep the pick up parked outside one sticker says "what would
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jesus do?" the other bumper sticker says "power of pride" I was thumbing
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through the stations on my own television when i come across a guy on the
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religious station singing "somebody's coming" sounding whiter than me
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somehow, wow, it took me back in time through dwindling joy to when I was
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such a guilt ridden catholic boy, I'm evangelical agnostic now I don't know
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what we're doing here you don't know what were doing here, now Christians
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don't walk out on me just yet you know whose name im yelling as im clutching
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my chest the one my dad told me to and his told him to and I probably pray as
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much or more than you do believe? sh*t, every word i sing but believing and
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knowing, those are two different things and if your trying to change the way
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a strangers life will have to go I believe this is where i wanna stick to
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what i know which is nothing you know, nothing for sure so just chill til the
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next episode now back to the lecture at hand seems like my neighbor wants to
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kill what he cant understand I say we cant just kill what we don't understand
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but I turn on my tv and see that oh yes we can we can and we have since then
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dawn of man for countless gods whose only real seeming plan was to see to it
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that clinging to life was our fate and you gotta admit that life's pretty
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great, but can we deny that its killing us? i'll be here all week
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happy new year everybody happy birthday country joe I resolve to do like i
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always do I aint hurtin you
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if life is anything its embarrassing a rusty nail through a careless shoe you
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can't help but sit around and wonder sometimes why there's never anything the
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poor nail can do or think about how unfair it is that the shoe is only going
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where it has to too if you ain't the dumb kid out running around you kinda
gotta do what your born to do hey
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happy new year everybody specifically happy birthday to you Country Joe I
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resolve to do like I always do and I only ever make it a day or two
