Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels chords

Tom T Hall

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You wake up in the morning drink a beer and take a Valium 

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And you're trying to forget about the things you did last night 

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Flip through that morning paper read the horoscope and the comics 

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You're as well informed as anybody on the left or the right 


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You make it to your job and hear Atlanta lost another 

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How can you lose while making half a million bucks or near 

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The old man who sweeps the floor and wears a big blue Reagan button 

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Says the Russians are a coming but they've been here for years 


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Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels 

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It's the all new American diet 

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Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels 

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You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life 


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There's a story in the paper about a man who killed his family 

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He jumped off a bridge because he couldn't take it anymore 

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Down at the local tavern a young man comes in limping 

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And he claims that he's a veteran of the Falkland Islands war 


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You head home and you're accosted by a youngster wearing robes 

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And wanting money for his God who sits upon a plastic throne 

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You ignore him if you can and make it to the local tavern 

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Where you order up a drink and give some money to your own 


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Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels 

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It's the all new American diet 

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Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels 

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You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life 


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There's a man in Tennessee who's got it figured out completely 

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I guess that he's as happy as a thinking man can be 

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I asked him what he thought and he said brother let me tell you 

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Try a little bit of both and leave out everything in between 


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Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels 

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It's the all new American diet 

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Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels 

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You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life