Clean Up Your Own Backyard

INTRO: E B E

#1.
E                   B            
Back porch preacher preaching at me,
E
 acting like
   B                E
he wrote the golden rules.
A                    E            
Shaking his fist and screeching at
 A   E
 me, shouting from

his soap box like a fool.
     B                           
Come Sunday morning he's lying in 
              A
bed with his eyes

all red, with the wine in his 
head..wishing he was
dead when he oughta be heading for 
E
Sunday school.

CHORUS:
E                 A
Clean up your own backyard..oh, 
don't you hand me none
        E
of your lines.
              B             A
Clean up your own backyard..you tend
 to your business,
             E    A B E
I'll tend to mine.

#2.
Continues after the ad
E                                 
Drugstore cowboy criticizing, 
             B
acting like he's better
             E
than you and me.
A                      
Standing on the sidewalk 
               E
supervising, telling everybody
         D        E
how they ought to be.
     B                             
Come closing time most every night,
    A
 he locks up tight and

out go the lights and he ducks out 
of sight and he cheats
                     E
on his wife with his employee.

CHORUS:
E                 A          
Clean up your own backyard..oh, 
             D
don't you hand me none
        E
of your lines.
              B             A
Clean up your own backyard..you tend
 to your business,
             E    A B E
I'll tend to mine.

#3.
E
Armchair quarterback's always 
moanin', second guessing

people all day long.
A                                 
Pushing, fooling and hanging on 
                 B
in, always messing where
           E
they don't belong.
A        B                  
When you get right down to the 
                 A
nitty-gritty, isn't it a pity
                            D  
that in this big city not a one 
                A
a'little bitty man'll admit
he could have been a little bit 
E
wrong.

CHORUS:
E                 A          
Clean up your own backyard..oh, 
             D
don't you hand me none
        E
of your lines.
              Bm            A
Clean up your own backyard..you tend
 to your business,
             E    A B E
I'll tend to mine.

OUTRO:
E             B             A
Clean up your own backyard..you tend
 to your business, I'll
        E
tend to mine.