Key: G
Introduction:
G C
You wake up in the morning drink a beer and take a Valium
G D7
And you're trying to forget about the things you did last night
G C
Flip through that morning paper read the horoscope and the comics
G D7 G
You're as well informed as anybody on the left or the right
G C
You make it to your job and hear Atlanta lost another
G D7
How can you lose while making half a million bucks or near
G C
The old man who sweeps the floor and wears a big blue Reagan button
G D7 G
Says the Russians are a coming but they've been here for years
C G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels
D7 G
It's the all new American diet
C G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels
C G D7 G
You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life
G C
There's a story in the paper about a man who killed his family
G D7
He jumped off a bridge because he couldn't take it anymore
G C
Down at the local tavern a young man comes in limping
G D7 G
And he claims that he's a veteran of the Falkland Islands war
G C
You head home and you're accosted by a youngster wearing robes
G D7
And wanting money for his God who sits upon a plastic throne
G C
You ignore him if you can and make it to the local tavern
G D7 G
Where you order up a drink and give some money to your own
C G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels
D7 G
It's the all new American diet
C G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels
C G D7 G
You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life
G
There's a man in Tennessee who's got it figured out completely
G D7
I guess that he's as happy as a thinking man can be
G C
I asked him what he thought and he said brother let me tell you
G D7 G
Try a little bit of both and leave out everything in between
C G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels
D7 G
It's the all new American diet
C G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels
C G D7 G
You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life