Billy Joe Shaver - Why The Man In Black Sings The Blues guitar chord

Artist: Billy Joe Shaver

Album: Freedom's Child

Intro: G A D

D G D G

There's a drug dealer selling to your children everyday

D A

He's rotten evil, but he ain't nobody's fool

D G

He's dealin' death and livin' high

D G

Off your hard-earned pay,

G A D

That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

G A D

That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

E E7 A7

Why should children, why should women be abused

G A D G

There's so precious few among us walking in the Savior's shoes

G A D

That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

G A D

D G D G

We've got to stamp out hunger all around the planet Earth

D G A

We've got to be our weapons in the clouds

D G

We've got to ban these bombs I say,

D G

We've got to save our lives

A

We've got to do it all startin' now

G A D

That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

E E7 A7

Why the farmer and his crops we're saving too

G A D G

So every workin' stiff across this land won't have to lose

G A D

That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

G A D

D G D G

The first Americans were the riskiest human beings

D A

They saved us all that first Thanksgiving Day

D G D G

Like the older folks behind, walkin' in the welfare line

G A

Their trail of tears grows longer by the way

G A D

That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

E E7 A7

Why should any human being be abused

G A D G

There's so precious few among us walking in the Savior's shoes

G A D

That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

G A D

That's why The Man In Black sings the blues

Outro: G A D