John Prine – Living In The Future (Guitar)

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Jehosaphat the mongrel cat

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Jumped off the roof today

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Some say he fell but I could tell

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He did himself away

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His eyes weren't bright like they were the night

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We played checkers on the train

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God Bless his soul he was a tootsie roll

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But he's a dead cat just the same

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We are living in the future

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I'll tell you how I know

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I read it in the paper

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Fifteen years ago

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We're all driving rocket ships

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And talking with our minds

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And wearing turquoise jewelry

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And standing in soup lines

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We are standing in soup lines

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Jake the barber's lonely daughter

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Went down to her daddy's shop

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She plugged herself to a barber pole

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And took a little off the top

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Pressure on the left. Pressure on the right

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Pressure in the middle of the hole

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I'm goin' to Maine on a forty foot crane

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I'm gonna use it for a fishin' pole

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Old Sarah Brown sells tickets down

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At the all night picture show

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Where they grind out sex and they rate it with an "X"

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Just to make a young man's pants grow

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No tops no bottoms just hands and feet

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Screaming the posters out on the street

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Strangling the curious and the weak

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We give them what they wanna see

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Yeah we give 'em what they wanna see - O