Intro: N.C(Fm)
Fm Cm
The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail
Fm Cm
Call no man happy till he dies, there's no milk at the bottom of the pail
Dm
God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel
like the thistles that are growing on the trunk of a tree
All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble
And still have room for you and me
Fm
If there's one thing you can say about mankind
Dm
There's nothing kind about man
Fm
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
Cm
But it always comes roaring back again
Fm
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Fm Cm Fm Cm Fm Cm Fm
Fm Cm
The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail
Fm Cm
Call no man happy till he dies, there's no milk at the bottom of the pail
Dm
God tempers all the ruins for the new shorn lands
Am
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand
Fm
All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble
Cm C7
And still have room for you and me
Fm
If there's one thing you can say about mankind
Cm
There's nothing kind about man
Dm
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
Cm
But it always comes roaring back again
Fm Cm
For want of a bird the sky was lost, for want of a nail the shoe
was lost
Fm Cm C7
For want of a life a life was lost for want of a toy a child was lost
Fm
And misery's the river of the world
Cm
Misery's the river of the world
Fm
Everybody row, everybody row
Cm
Misery's the river of the word
Fm
Misery's the river of the world
Cm
Misery's the river of the world
Fm
Everybody row, everybody row
Cm
Everybody row, everybody row
Fm
Misery's the river of the world
Am
Misery's the river of the world
Fm
Everybody row, everybody row
Am
Everybody row, everybody row
Fm
Everybody row
Am
Misery's the river of the world
Fm
Misery's the river of the world
Am
Misery's the river of the world
Fm
Misery's the river of the world
Am
Everybody row, everybody
Fm Am Fm Am Fm (fades)
Everybody row