Back On My Feet Again

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Doctor, let me tell you something 
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about myself
      D                   C  
I'm a college man and I'm very 
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wealthy
     G              E         
I've got no time to trifle with 
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trash like you
        D        C       G
Cause I must be 'bout my business

   G               E        
My brother's a machinist in a 
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textile mill
       D                        
And he makes more money than you 
 C    G
ever will
   G        E            A
He just got married to a Polish girl
D              C         G
With a space between her teeth

G             E            A
My sister's a dancer up in Baltimore
D          C       G
At a small cafe on Main
        G              E          
But she ran off with a Negro from 
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the Eastern Shore
D                                
Doctor, she didn't even know his 
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name

       G          D    G
Get me back on my feet again
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Back on my feet again
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G        Bm       Em  E  A
Open the door and set me free
       A          D    G
Get me back on my feet again

G                   E           
He took her down to Mobile in a 
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railroad train
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He said, "Driver, take me to the 
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Hotel Puh-ree."
   G             E                
He went into the washroom, washed 
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his face and hands, and Doctor,
        D                          
When he come out he was white as 
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you and me

          G               E       
He said, "Girl, I ain't a Negro 
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I'm a millionaire
D          C       G
As you can plainly see
G       E          A
So many women were after my money
        D                          
But I'm proud to say you were only 
      A
after me

       G                 E        
“Gonna teach you to play polo and 
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how to water-ski
D             C        G
Won't have to dance no more
G        E                 A
And I no longer have to pretend to 
be
D                        A
A Negro from the Eastern Shore."

       G          D    G
Get me back on my feet again
                 D
Back on my feet again
G        Bm       Em  E  A
Open the door and set me free
       A          D    G
Get me back on my feet again


G               E        A
Doctor, doctor, what you say
D                    C     G
How 'bout letting me out today?
G        E          A
Ain't no reason for me to stay
D              A
Everybody's so far away

       G          D    G
Get me back on my feet again
                 D
Back on my feet again
G        Bm       Em  E  A
Open the door and set me free
       A          D    G
Get me back on my feet again