Porter Wagoner – Committed To Parkview (Ukulele)

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There's a man across the hall who sits staring at the floor

                                           C
and he thinks he's Hank Williams, hear him singing through the door.

          F                     C
There's a girl in 202 who stops by to visit me

        D                             G
and she talks about her songs and the star that she should be.

          C                                F
There's a lot of real fine talent, staying in or passing through

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and for one thing or another, they're committed to Parkview.

C                            G
There's a girl in 207 coming down on Thorazine

                                       C
and a superstars ex-drummer, trying to kick Benzedrine.

          F                                 C
There's a real fine country singer, who has tried and tried and tried.

          D                                G
They just bought him in this morning, an attempted suicide.

          C                                    F
There are those that never made it, those that did and now are through.

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Some came of their own good choosing, some committed to Parkview.

          C                              G
There's a girl who cries above me, loud enough to wake the dead.

                                            C
They don't know what she has taken that has scrambled up her head.

          F                                C
There's a boy just down below me who's the son of some well known.

       D                                  G
He was brought in by his mother cause his daddy's always gone.  

          C                               F
There's a bum from down on Broadway and a few quite well to do's.

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Who have withdrawn from the rat-race and committed to Parkview.

C                               G
They wake me 'bout 6.30, just before the morning meal.

                                             C
While they're taking my blood pressure, they ask us how we feel.

      F                                    C
And I always say fantastic but there ain't nothing wrong with me.

          D                          G
Then they give me my injection and I go right back to sleep.

       C                             F
And my days are kind of foggy and my nights are dreamy too.

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But they're taking good care of me while committed to Parkview.