Top of the Bottom Akkorde von 
John Wesley Harding And The Minus 5 
N/A1 Aufrufe
Key: G major•
Verse 1
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I started
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Playing guitar by the town memori al
All my songs were singing editorials
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And when I'd done,
the sermon on the mount
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I counted my change and put
it in my bank account
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I didn't want to work at the local avatar
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So I left home, expanded my repertoire
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I did some gigs, No one booed
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I got free beer and I drank it with gratitude
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Once I star ted I couldn't
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stop
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That's how I got from
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The bot tom to the top
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Verse 3
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A businessman with a very
young dolly bird
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Talked through the set,
liked what he thought he heard
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Dropped some names he
claimed to represent
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An d asked me if I had any man agement
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Well two weeks later,
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I'm signing on ??docubine??
Offered some drugs, at first I declined
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Lots of parties where the
spread's incredible
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But don't get close 'cause
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the food's inedible
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And I became a spinning
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top
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That's how I got from
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The bot tom to the top
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of the bottom
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I got a sweet
Verse 5
deal and I moved to America
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I fell in love with an
heiress called Erica
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Star ted out smart, soon got silly
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I partied by the pool and then arrest
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for nec rophilia
News travels fast like electricity
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A bad mug shot, it's good publicity
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I laid low for a month or two
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And spent my dough building
a recording studio
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And that's when it all went pop
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That's how I got from
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The bot tom to the top of
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the bot tom
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Verse 7
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The label ??Empeola?? got me
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in the charts
My new management
had me by the private parts
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I went on strike, took the initiative
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For getting that I didn't have
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a single thing to bargain with
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I lost my nerve, my fall was glorious
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The lawsuit was eternal and laborious
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My new material was
only fair to middling
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Rome was burning and I did some fiddling
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And
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finally, I was dropped
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That's how I got back from
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The bot tom to the top of
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the bot tom
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Verse 9
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On the way down people tend
to leave you where you fall
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I tried to stand up but I didn't
have the wherewithal
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I nearly died in a cab one day
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So I swapped my bourbon for
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a bottle full of perri er
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There were rumors about my sexuality
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The video star, killed by reality
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Next thing I know I'm on my knees
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Begging the camera,
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"Will you vote me off the island please?"
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But the world forgives a flop
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That's how I got back from
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The bot tom to the top of the bot tom
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Verse 11
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well all that
exposure and the phone starts to ring again
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I experienced the strange
urge to sing again
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Well not long ago I was a boy with a dream
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I reacquaint myself with a razor
and some shaving cream
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Look at me I'm ripe for rediscov ery
All I need is Mary to mother me
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On the tenth green I was way over par
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My partner offered me a tour
in ??Jesus Christ's Superstar??
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And that's
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when the penny dropped
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That's how I got back back from
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The bot tom to the top of
the bottom
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Verse 13
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Well we toured all over the
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states of Amer ica
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I got a picture of my son from Erica
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My parents wrote, "Since you disappeared,
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Hard to believe but
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it's just been one year,"
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Now it's back to ale and cakes again
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I wonder if I'll make the
same mistakes again
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I hope that you've enjoyed
this tutorial
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There's another busker who
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was playing the me morial
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I'm getting bored
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of talking shop
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That's how I got back from
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The bot tom to the top of the bot tom
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To the top of the bot tom
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To the top of the bot tom
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