Why The Man In Black Sings The Blues Chords

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Why The Man In Black Sings The Blues by Billy Joe Shaver is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords G, A, D, E, E7 and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D
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Album: Freedom's Child 
 
 
Intro: G A D 
 
          D           G               D             G                   
There's a drug dealer selling to your children everyday 
 
            D                           A 
He's rotten evil, but he ain't nobody's fool 
 
     D                 G 
He's dealin' death and livin' high 
 
D                    G 
Off your hard-earned pay,  
 
G                     A               D 
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues 
 
 
G                     A               D 
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues 
 
E                        E7              A7 
Why should children, why should women be abused 
 
           G            A                D               G       
There's so precious few among us walking in the Savior's shoes 
 
G                     A               D  
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues 
 
 
G A D 
 
 
      D                G          D                 G 
We've got to stamp out hunger all around the planet Earth 
 
      D             G              A 
We've got to be our weapons in the clouds 
 
      D                G 
We've got to ban these bombs I say,  
 
      D                G 
We've got to save our lives 
 
                       A 
We've got to do it all startin' now 
 
       G              A               D 
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues 
 
        E              E7                 A7 
Why the farmer and his crops we're saving too 
 
   G             A                 D                  G 
So every workin' stiff across this land won't have to lose 
 
       G              A               D 
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues 
 
 
G A D 
 
 
    D          G             D              G 
The first Americans were the riskiest human beings 
 
     D                                    A                   
They saved us all that first Thanksgiving Day 
 
         D             G             D              G 
Like the older folks behind, walkin' in the welfare line 
 
      G                                  A 
Their trail of tears grows longer by the way 
 
       G              A               D 
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues 
 
    E               E7        A7 
Why should any human being be abused 
 
        G               A                D               G 
There's so precious few among us walking in the Savior's shoes 
 
       G              A               D 
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues 
 
       G              A               D 
That's why The Man In Black sings the blues 
 
 
Outro: G A D  
    	

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