Chords for Drive-By Truckers - Puttin' People On The Moon

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[G] [D] Mary Alice had a baby and it looked just like I did.
We got married on a Monday and I've been working ever since.
They're a week down at the Ford plant, but now they're shutting down.
Goddamn Reagan's in the White House, nobody gives a damn.
[G] Double digit unemployment, [Gm] the VA be shutting soon.
[D] While over there in Huntsville putting people on the moon.
So I took the running numbers of this man I used to know.
And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little glow.
[Gm] I ain't getting rich now, [G] but I'm getting more than fine.
[D] Does it just make a living?
Well, a man's just gotta try.
[G] If I died and called the counter, would it make the evening news?
[D] They do this blowing rockets putting people on the moon.
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[Bb] Mary Alice, she [F] quit asking [Gm] why I do the [Dm] things I do.
[Bb] I ain't saying [F] that she likes it, [Gm] but what else I'm [Dm] gonna do?
[Bb] Well, we'll solve the [F] worst problems, [Gm] probably start with [Dm] hers and mine.
But [Bb] they can put a man [F] on the moon.
[Gm] And I'm stuck down [G] here just scraping by.
[D] Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here.
Seems like everyone I know's getting cancer every year.
And we can't afford no insurance.
I've been ten years unemployed.
So she didn't get no chemo and our lives was destroyed.
[Gm] Nothing ever [G] changes.
Cemetery gets more [Gm] full.
[D] No repair in Huntsville, even NASA shut down too. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Now there are jokers in the White House, said a change is coming around.
But I'm working at the Walmart, Mary Alice in the ground.
[G] And all the politicians, they all lying sacks of shit.
[D] They say better days are upon us, but it's sucking left hand shit.
And [G] the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for [Gm] me.
But [D] I bet he drives a Cadillac and I'm broke with hungry mouths to feed.
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And [Bb] I wish [F] I still had what was [G] a better way [Dm] of life.
I'd [Bb] put clothes underneath [F] my bed, still [Gm] have time [G] to love [Dm] my pretty [Bb] wife.
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If [Bb] you say I'm being [F] punished, you [Gm] got better things [Dm] to do.
[Bb] Drowning mountains, searching [F] oceans, [Gm] putting [Dm] people on the moon.
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[Bb] Drowning mountains, searching [F] oceans, putting [Gm] people on [Dm] the moon.
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