Gratitude (For Curt Flood)


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Now everyone’s walking like they’re rolling in dough.
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Throwing all their money around just for show.
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Acting like everything is coming to them and knowing that more is just around the bend.

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But I’m the one who paved the way and laid my body in the road so you can walk on it today.
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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?
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Yeah, You call that gratitude
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I’m the well-paid slave and the roads that I paved took my career, that’s just what I gave.
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Five years later they were rolling in clover but nothing for me, my career was over.

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If I’d been born just a generation later I could have settled up with an arbitrator.
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I’d be wearing fur coats if I were rich with a “bum-bum-bitty-bitty-bum”

Am                    B  
Yeah, You call that gratitude?
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Yeah, You call that gratitude
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Solo

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On the day that I died and they laid me in the ground where was everybody?
            Am
They couldn’t be found.
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I’m gone and they don’t know my name.
    B                          E
No plaque, no speech, no hall of fame..
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A-Rod, Zito, Posada, Tejada, Johan, Manny, Maddux, Mussina.
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Who’s the one who paved the way with blood?
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Go say my name—it’s (Flood!) Curt Flood!

Am                    B  
You call that gratitude?
E                        Am
Yeah, You call that gratitude
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A-Rod, Zito, Posada, Tejada, Johan, Manny, Maddux, Mussina.
Dm Am B E

You call that gratitude?