Gratitude (For Curt Flood) Secuence chords: Am B E Am Dm Am B E Am B Now everyone’s walking like they’re rolling in dough. E Am Throwing all their money around just for show. Dm Am B E Acting like everything is coming to them and knowing that more is just around the bend. Am B E Am But I’m the one who paved the way and laid my body in the road so you can walk on it today. Dm Am I stood right up when they tried to put me down. B E You’re so high up, you forget to look down! Am B You call that gratitude? E Am Yeah, You call that gratitude Dm Am B E Am B E Am I’m the well-paid slave and the roads that I paved took my career, that’s just what I gave. Dm Am B E Five years later they were rolling in clover but nothing for me, my career was over. Am B E Am If I’d been born just a generation later I could have settled up with an arbitrator. Dm Am B E I’d be wearing fur coats if I were rich with a “bum-bum-bitty-bitty-bum” Am B Yeah, You call that gratitude? E Am Yeah, You call that gratitude Dm Am B E Solo Am B E On the day that I died and they laid me in the ground where was everybody? Am They couldn’t be found. Dm Am I’m gone and they don’t know my name. B E No plaque, no speech, no hall of fame.. Am B E Am A-Rod, Zito, Posada, Tejada, Johan, Manny, Maddux, Mussina. Dm Am Who’s the one who paved the way with blood? B E Go say my name—it’s (Flood!) Curt Flood! Am B You call that gratitude? E Am Yeah, You call that gratitude Dm Am B E Am B E Am A-Rod, Zito, Posada, Tejada, Johan, Manny, Maddux, Mussina. Dm Am B E You call that gratitude?
