Don McLean – Respectable (Ukulele)

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Ah, it aint so easy is it? you almost lost your place.

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And perhaps youre wondering how youre going to cope with your disgrace.

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Well your wealth is well established and your friends were never few,

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And all the things they told you of youre finding to be true.

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Well if truth can free the guilty while the innocent must die,

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Then I respect, respect, respect the coldest lie.

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And you talk of human justice while you drive on fancy wheels.

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And you push them to their limit just to see how nice it feels.

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Well it doesnt really matter if shes living or shes dead,

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You just drive away forgetting that your bumpers dipped in red.

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Well if thats the kind of justice that our hall of justice claims,

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Then I respect, respect, respect old jesse james.

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And most cordially they caught you and they asked you to obey.

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And they threw you into prison, just in case you could not pay.

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Well King Arthur jousted Lancelot, who stole away his wife;

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And your lawyers jousted with the court to save your precious life.

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Well if living is what matters though you lie with every breath,

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Then I respect, respect, the ones we put to death.

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And you won your case most easily and soon you will be free.

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But there will be a million more    who lose their liberty.

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Not because of what they did,      but what they did not do:

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They did not pay a lawyer or a judge to see them through.

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Why, they had no friends to call on and they could not raise their bail.

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Well if winning is what matters, I respect the ones who fail.