Tono: G
Introducción:
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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
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