Townes Van Zandt - Fraternity Blues Chords

[Intro]
C  F  G  C
 
 
[Verse 1]
C
I decided to improve my social station
           F
I joined a fraternal organization
G
Tucked in my shirt, signed on the line
G
Right away they set about to improve my mind
G
The car I drove, the books I read,
G
the food I ate, the booze I drank,
G
the girls I took out,
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My breath
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
C
They said "kid we don't much like the way you walk
            F
and you're gonna have to change the way you talk"
      G
They said "your dress is kinda sluochy
 
and your attitude is mighty grouchy"
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Said you got to learn to bubble
C     F             G
You got to bubble with enthusiamm,
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I started bubblin'
 
 
[Verse 3]
C                            F
The most important thing you can't forget
                 G
Is learning the entire Greek alphabet
C            f
I never did really understand
     G
how that's gonna' make me any more of a man
                 G
But I learned it
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I can rip through that son-of-a-beta backwards in 5 seconds
 
 
[Verse 4]
C
Then they hit me with some pretty bad news
               F
Concerning the payment of monthly dues
G
I never did know where that money went
 
and I never was sure it waa real well spent
              C  F
but I paid it
G
I'm no trouble causer and besides, I figured that's life
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If you want good friends, they're gonna cost ya
 
 
[Verse 5]
C
Well it finally got to be party time
                        F
I got a great big ole jug of wine
 G
I went back to the house in about an hour
 
and everybody was drnking Whiskey sours
G
Brandy alexanders and frozen dqauaris
G                                           C  F  G  C
Reciting the greek alphabet to one another
 
 
[Verse 6]
C                                F
I could see I was gonna have to do my very best
G
To get myself out of that fraternity mess
       C                     F
So I stood right there outside the door
       G
And I chugged that wine like never before
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Walked inside and bubbled -
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all over a couple of their dates
 
 
[Verse 7]
C
So now everything is back to normal again
              F
but there is still lots of room for improvement, friend
                 G
Of course that fraternity stuff's too much for me
G
Next time I'm gonna' join a sorotity
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And really give em something to bubble about