Todd Snider - Happy new year

^Chappy new year every^Gbody there's an overweight man with an overweight woman on a sofa just watching TV hes ^Cyelling his opinion at the television she looks up from her food and agrees they got ^Dtwo bumper stickers on there pick up truck they keep the pick up parked outside ^Gone sticker says "what would jesus do?" the other bumper sticker says "power^G of pride" I was thumbing through the stations on my own television when i ^Ccome across a guy on the religious station singing &^Dquot;somebody's coming" sounding whiter than me some^Ghow, wow, it took me back in time through dwindling joy to when ^CI was such a guilt ridden catholic boy, I'm ^Devangelical agnostic no^Gw ^CI don't know what we're doing here ^Dyou don't know what were doing here, ^G now Christians don't walk out on me just yet you know whose ^Cname im yelling as im clutching my chest the one my ^Ddad told me to and his told him to and I ^Gprobably pray as much or more than you do believe? shit, every word i sing but be^Clieving and knowing, those are two different things and if your ^Dtrying to change the way a strangers life will have to go I ^Gbelieve this is where i wanna stick to what i know which is ^Cnothing you know, nothing for sure so ^Djust chill til the next episode now ^Gback to the lecture at hand seems like my ^Cneighbor wants to kill what he cant understand I say we ^Dcant just kill what we don't understand but I ^Gturn on my tv and see that oh yes we can we can and we have since then dawn of man ^Cfor countless gods whose only real seeming plan was to ^Dsee to it that clinging to life was our fate and you ^Ggotta admit that life’s pretty great,^C but ^D can we deny that its killing us? ^G i'll be here all week

hap^Cpy new year everybody happy birthday country joe I resolve to do like i ^Galways do I aint ^Dhurtin you

^Gif life is anything its embarrassing a ^Crusty nail through a careless shoe you ^Dcan't help but sit around and wonder sometimes why there's ^Gnever anything the poor nail can do or think about how unfair it is that the ^Cshoe is only going where it has to too if you ^Dain't the dumb kid out running around you ^Gkinda

happy ^Gnew year everybody specifically happy birthday to you Country Joe I C G D resolve^G to do like I always do and I only ever make it a day or two