my first posting, love this song but couldn't find it. so here it is, i think its pretty accurate. You gotta listen to the song to the song to get a good feel. I hate that when i copy this from one place to another the chords jump to different spots! whats up with that? 1 song, 1 page, everything in place - strive for it! Todd Snider - Happy New Year Capo on 5th fret C G happy new year everybody there's an overweight man with an overweight woman C on a sofa just watching TV hes yelling his opinion at the television she D looks up from her food and agrees they got two bumper stickers on there pick G up truck they keep the pick up parked outside one sticker says "what would G jesus do?" the other bumper sticker says "power of pride" I was thumbing C through the stations on my own television when i come across a guy on the D religious station singing "somebody's coming" sounding whiter than me G C somehow, wow, it took me back in time through dwindling joy to when I was D G C such a guilt ridden catholic boy, I'm evangelical agnostic now I don't know D G what we're doing here you don't know what were doing here, now Christians C don't walk out on me just yet you know whose name im yelling as im clutching D G my chest the one my dad told me to and his told him to and I probably pray as C much or more than you do believe? shit, every word i sing but believing and D knowing, those are two different things and if your trying to change the way G a strangers life will have to go I believe this is where i wanna stick to C D what i know which is nothing you know, nothing for sure so just chill til the G C next episode now back to the lecture at hand seems like my neighbor wants to D kill what he cant understand I say we cant just kill what we don't understand G but I turn on my tv and see that oh yes we can we can and we have since then C D dawn of man for countless gods whose only real seeming plan was to see to it G that clinging to life was our fate and you gotta admit that life?s pretty C D G great, but can we deny that its killing us? i'll be here all week C G C G C happy new year everybody happy birthday country joe I resolve to do like i G D always do I aint hurtin you G C if life is anything its embarrassing a rusty nail through a careless shoe you D G can't help but sit around and wonder sometimes why there's never anything the C poor nail can do or think about how unfair it is that the shoe is only going D G where it has to too if you ain't the dumb kid out running around you kinda gotta do what your born to do hey C G C G happy new year everybody specifically happy birthday to you Country Joe I C G D G resolve to do like I always do and I only ever make it a day or two