All The Nasties

      C/G               Am9            Bbmaj7
If it came to pass that they should ask
              C
What could I tell them
           C/G        Am9            Bbmaj7
Would they criticize behind my back
                C
Maybe I should let them
F     C/E           Am7
Oh if only then and only then
D9              Dm7/G    Gsus4
They would understand
              C       /E   F
They'd turn a full-blooded city boy
       C/G          F    C    C7/E  F  C/G  G7/B  C
Into a full-blooded city man

   C/G
If they could face it
Am9             Bbmaj7
I could take it in their eyes
     C       F/C        C      F/C
Oh I know I'd make it
      C/G
Their tiny minds
    Am7        Bbmaj7    C
And sacred cows     just fake it
F     C/E            Am7
Oh if only then and only then
D9               Dm7/G     Gsus4
They would understand
              C     C/E    F
They'd turn a full-blooded city boy
       C/G        G7/B  C    C7/E  F  C/G  G7/B  C
Into a full-blooded city man

      Bbm               Eb7/Bb
But I know the way they want me
       Abmaj7
In the way they publicize
Bbm                              Eb7/Bb
If they could turn their focus off
       Abmaj7
To the image in their eyes
C/G            G9sus4    C/G             F
Maybe it would help them, help them understand
Maybe it would help them, help them understand
Maybe it would help them, help them understand
       C        /E  F
That a full-blooded city boy
        C/G           F/G  C
Is now a full-blooded city man

C/G
Do do do do do do do do do
Am9
Do do do do do do do do do
Bbmaj7                        C  F/C  C F/C
Do do do do do do do do do do

C/G
Oh my soul
Am9
Oh my soul
Bbmaj7
Oh my soul

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