Capo on 5th fret C5 G5 happy new year everybody there's an overweight man with an overweight woman C5 on a sofa just watching TV hes yelling his opinion at the television she D5 looks up from her food and agrees they got two bumper stickers on there pick G5 up truck they keep the pick up parked outside one sticker says "what would G5 jesus do?" the other bumper sticker says "power of pride" I was thumbing C5 through the stations on my own television when i come across a guy on the D5 religious station singing "somebody's coming" sounding whiter than me G5 C5 somehow, wow, it took me back in time through dwindling joy to when I was D5 G5 C5 such a guilt ridden catholic boy, I'm evangelical agnostic now I don't know D5 G5 what we're doing here you don't know what were doing here, now Christians C5 don't walk out on me just yet you know whose name im yelling as im clutching D5 G5 my chest the one my dad told me to and his told him to and I probably pray as C5 much or more than you do believe? shit, every word i sing but believing and D5 knowing, those are two different things and if your trying to change the way G5 a strangers life will have to go I believe this is where i wanna stick to C5 D5 what i know which is nothing you know, nothing for sure so just chill til the G5 C5 next episode now back to the lecture at hand seems like my neighbor wants to D5 kill what he cant understand I say we cant just kill what we don't understand G5 but I turn on my tv and see that oh yes we can we can and we have since then C5 D5 dawn of man for countless gods whose only real seeming plan was to see to it G5 that clinging to life was our fate and you gotta admit that life?s pretty C5 D5 G5 great, but can we deny that its killing us? i'll be here all week C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 happy new year everybody happy birthday country joe I resolve to do like i G5 D5 always do I aint hurtin you G5 C5 if life is anything its embarrassing a rusty nail through a careless shoe you D5 G5 can't help but sit around and wonder sometimes why there's never anything the C5 poor nail can do or think about how unfair it is that the shoe is only going D5 G5 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 C5 G5 C5 G5 happy new year everybody specifically happy birthday to you Country Joe I C5 G5 D5 G5 resolve to do like I always do and I only ever make it a day or two
