Elvis Presley - Clean up your own backyard
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Clean up your own Backyard – Elvis Presley
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Written by: Scott "Mac" Davis/Billy Strange
From: „Almost in Love“ [1968]
Undubbed version on „The Original Elvis Presley Collection 29“
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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[Intro]
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[Verse]
E7Back porch preacher preaching at me
E7Acting like he wrote the golden rules
A7Shaking his fist and speeching at me
E7Shouting from his soap box like a fool
Come B7Sunday morning he's lying in bed
[break]
With his A7eye all red, with the wine in his head
[break]
A7
Wishing he was dead
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When he oughta be heading for Sunday school [break]
[Chorus]
Clean up your own backA7yard
Oh don't you hand me none of your E7lines
Clean up your B7own backyard
A7 | E7 A7 | E B7 |
You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine
[break]
[Verse]
E7Drugstore cowboy criticizing
E7Acting like he's better than you and me
A7Standing on the sidewalk supervising
E7Telling everybody how they ought to be
Come B7closing time 'most every night
[break]
He A7locks up tight and out go the lights
[break]
A7
And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife
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With his employee [break]
[Chorus]
Clean up your own backA7yard
Oh don't you hand me none of your E7lines
Clean up your B7own backyard
A7 | E7 A7 | E B7 |
You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine
[break]
[Interlude]
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[Verse]
E7Armchair quarterback's always moanin'
E7Second guessing people all day long
A7Pushing, fooling and hanging on in
E7Always messing where they don't belong
When you B7get right down to the nitty-gritty
[break]
A7Isn't it a pity that in this big city
[break]
A7
Not a one a'little bitty man'll admit
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He could have been a little bit wrong [break]
[Chorus] + coda
Clean up your own backA7yard
Oh don't you hand me, don't you hand me none of your E7lines
Clean up your B7own backyard
A7 | E7 A7 | E B7 |
You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine
[break]
Clean up your B7own backyard
A7You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine ... [slide lick] E7