Stand Up Guy

[Intro]

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[Verse 1]
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brew the coffee in a bucket, 
                      E
double straight man and banjo
                     B         
if you don't got the snake oil, 
         E               F#7
buster, you don't got a show
             B               
who puts the doh-re-me in our 
                               E
pockets keeps the party going on?
                           B       
it's the man who sells the potions,
          F#7               B
 i'm just one who plays the songs

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now they generally buys the bigger
            B
 size, they usually rub it in
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i drank it once, it tasted, like 
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grease and paraffin
     B                             
it's mostly alcohol, okay you can't
           E
 deny it's strong
                         B       
we was going through the motions, 
          F#           B
‘til the doctor came along

[Chorus]
B                Ebm     E      
there stands the bottle, ladies 
    B
and gentlemen
E         B        E            
all these bottles, don't have to
      F#7
 tell you, friends
B                               
these days miracles, don't come 
Ebm              E
falling from the sky
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                          B        
raise your glasses to the doctor, 
    B7    F#7 B
to a stand up guy

[Verse 2]
         B                         
when the monkeyshine is flying and 
     B7            E
he's promising the cure
                            B      
he says the french for your 
         E              F#7
lovesick blues, la maladie d'amour
            B                      
he gets the chumps all laughing but
                  E
 he gets a few to buy
here's to beefsteak when you're 
B           F#7                 B
hungry, and whiskey when you're dry


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now the band'll blow their 
 F#7         B             B7
moolah,like sailors gone ashore
    E                   B         
now we're going to west helena, to
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 gamble, drink and whore
      B                            
let's you and me, all make whoopee,
 B7                 E
 here's mud in your eye
                           B   
here's to all the gals you ever 
           F#              B
want, and heaven when you die

[Chorus]
B                Ebm     E      
there stands the bottle, ladies 
    B
and gentlemen
E         B        E            
all these bottles, don't have to
      F#7
 tell you, friends
B                               
these days miracles, don't come 
Ebm              E
falling from the sky
                          B        
raise your glasses to the doctor, 
    B7    F#7 B
to a stand up guy

[Verse 3]
          B                        
there's a big cheese with a cigar, 
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been sizing up the show
                    B              
he wants to get the doctor, 
  E      F#7
pitching on the radio
       B                           
i will make a switch to guitar, but
     B7              E
 the rules all still apply
                       B           
they want to trust somebody, yeah, 
     F#7             B
they want a stand up guy

[Chorus]
B                Ebm     E      
there stands the bottle, ladies 
    B
and gentlemen
E         B        E            
all these bottles, don't have to
      F#7
 tell you, friends
B                               
these days miracles, don't come 
Ebm              E
falling from the sky
                          B        
raise your glasses to the doctor, 
    B7    F#7 B
to a stand up guy
     B7    F#7 B
to a stand up guy