If Ten Percent Is Good Enough For Jesus (It Oughta Be Enough For Uncle Sam)
written by Coleman/Gibbons/Searcy
Album: "Classic Ray Stevens"
12/18/05


INTRO: G 

                     G
Now I'd just like to say a few words right here about taxes
     C           D             G
I'll pay another man to do my taxes
                   C                             G
On account of it's just one more deduction I can take
                                       Em
But the postman brought my W-2 this mornin'
         A7                                     D
And this year they're claimin' a third of all I make

        G           C            G
Now I'm just as patriotic as the next man
         C                             Bm
And you know I love that red white and blue
        C                               G        C
So I'll help to pay this risin' cost of freedom
            G                   D                  G
But I'll be danged if I'm gonna change my point of view


CHORUS:
             C                               G           
'Cause every time the beaurocrats run out of money
      C                               G
Well Congress socks it to the workin' man
            C                                  G
And I don't think it's one bit funny when they take so much of my money
    A7                             D
And do things with it I don't understand
        G             C                    G
I don't know why they feel they've gotta squeeze us
         C                               Bm
But I'll tell you just exactly where I stand
             C                               G    G-G/F#-Em
I believe if ten percent is good enough for Jesus
        G          D               G
Well it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam


HARMONICA BREAK

                 G                     C              G
Now some of them folks that we've been sendin' off to Congress
           C                  D                G
Think that all they've got to do is spend and spend
                 C           G                   Em 
But you know you can't run a family much less a country
          A7                          D
With more money goin' out than comin' in

              G        C                G
And that old debt just keeps on gettin' bigger
          C                                  Bm
And we're all gonna have to pay so don't you laugh
               C                                       G      C
'Cause one day soon you just might look down at your paycheck
           G               D             G
And figure out they done started takin' half


CHORUS

          C                              G     G-G/F#-Em
I said if ten percent is good enough for Jesus
        G         D                 C          Em
Well it oughta be enough, you know times are tough
   G          D                G   D  G
It oughta be enough for Uncle Sam