Artist: Billy Joe Shaver
Album: Freedom's Child


Intro: G A D

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There's a drug dealer selling to your children everyday

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He's rotten evil, but he ain't nobody's fool

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He's dealin' death and livin' high

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Off your hard-earned pay, 

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That's why The Man In Black sings the blues


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That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

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Why should children, why should women be abused

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There's so precious few among us walking in the Savior's shoes

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That's why The Man In Black sings the blues


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We've got to stamp out hunger all around the planet Earth

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We've got to be our weapons in the clouds

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We've got to ban these bombs I say, 

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We've got to save our lives

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We've got to do it all startin' now

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That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

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Why the farmer and his crops we're saving too

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So every workin' stiff across this land won't have to lose

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That's why The Man In Black sings the blues


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The first Americans were the riskiest human beings

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They saved us all that first Thanksgiving Day

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Like the older folks behind, walkin' in the welfare line

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Their trail of tears grows longer by the way

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That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

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Why should any human being be abused

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There's so precious few among us walking in the Savior's shoes

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That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

       G              A               D
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues


Outro: G A D