Clean Up Your Own Backyard

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    Back porch preacher preaching at
 me
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    Acting like he wrote the golden 
rules
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    Shaking his fist and speeching 
at me
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    Shouting from his soap box like 
a fool
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    Come Sunday morning he's lying 
in bed
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    With his eye all red, with the 
wine in his head
               A
    Wishing he was dead when he 
oughta be
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    Heading for Sunday school

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    Clean up your own backyard
    Oh don't you hand me none of 
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your lines
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    Clean up your own backyard
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    You tend to your business, I'll
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 tend to mine

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    Drugstore cowboy criticizing
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    E
    Acting like he's better than you
 and me
    A
    Standing on the sidewalk 
supervising
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    Telling everybody how they ought
 to be
         B7
    Come closing time 'most every 
night
       A
    He locks up tight and out go the
 lights
        A
    And he ducks out of sight and he
 cheats on his wife
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    With his employee

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    Clean up your own backyard
    Oh don't you hand me none of 
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your lines
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    Clean up your own backyard
    A                              
    You tend to your business, I'll
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 tend to mine

    E

    E
    Armchair quarterback's always 
moanin'
    E
    Second guessing people all day 
long
    A
    Pushing, fooling and hanging on 
in
    E
    Always messing where they don't 
belong
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    When you get right down to the 
nitty-gritty
    A
    Isn't it a pity that in this big
 city
    A
    Not a one a'little bitty man'll 
admit
    He could have been a little bit 
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wrong

                          A
    Clean up your own backyard
    Oh don't you hand me, don't you 
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hand me none of your lines
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    Clean up your own backyard
    A                              
    You tend to your business, I'll
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 tend to mine
                  B7
    Clean up your own backyard
    A                              
    You tend to your business, I'll
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 tend to mine