Roger Miller – Private John Q (Guitar)

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As recorded by Roger Miller (From the 1964 Album ROGER AND OUT) [Intro] D [Verse 1]
        D
Well, I read in the papers and I see it on the television

                          A         D
Everybody's worried about World War Three

D
Here I am, a single boy, unemployed and everything

                         A          D
Somebody better stop and worry bout me
[Chorus]
      A                          A
Well, can't you just see me now, chin up and chest out

  G
A-hup two three four all day through?

D
Everybody seems to be worried about a somethin' other

                       A            D
Who's gonna worry bout Private John Q?
[Interlude]
D              A D
Rumbumbaduba...
[Verse 2]
D
Sometimes I get disheartened and try not to even think about it

                                    A                 D
Heaven knows it's hard to keep from lettin' it get me down

D
But I'll stand proud when everybody else will be

                                 A            D
Runnin' helter-skelter for their shelter underground
[Chorus]
      A                          A
Well, can't you just see me now, chin up and chest out

  G
A-hup two three four all day through?

D
Everybody seems to be worried about a somethin' other

                       A            D
Who's gonna worry bout Private John Q?
[Interlude]
D              A D
Rumbumbaduba...
[Verse 3]
D
When I was a little boy, I used to sit and dream of travelin'

                              A            D
To lotsa foreign countries on sight-seein' tours

D
The way it's lookin' now I can stop savin' money

                             A           D
Maybe go free sponsored by a Third World War
[Chorus]
      A                          A
Well, can't you just see me now, chin up and chest out

  G
A-hup two three four all day through?

D
Everybody seems to be worried about a somethin' other

                       A            D
Who's gonna worry bout Private John Q?

      A                          A
Well, can't you just see me now, chin up and chest out

  G
A-hup two three four all day through?

D
Everybody seems to be worried about a somethin' other

                       A            D
Who's gonna worry bout Private John Q?
[Outro] N.C. Rumbumbaduba...