Chords for Mark Farner - The Breakup of Grand Funk (6 of 9)

[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Egos, _ egos, that's all.
[Eb] Years too?
It's like, [Ab] _
yes, and it's like getting a divorce.
_ [G] You know, people, [Bb] fans don't [Gb] realize, [Em] you know, what's going on in the inner circle.
[B] And I don't think they should.
[C] I think the [Eb] fans deserve, [A] because Donna's still alive, Mel's still alive, and [C] I'm still alive,
the fans deserve to see the real Grand Funk before we all croak.
You know? _
Well, you [Bb] did that reunion. [G] Yeah.
What was that?
That's when the [Gb] _ guillotine came down in that reunion.
It wasn't until then [Eb] _
that this whole [B] corporate pressure _ [C] came on me, because prior to [Bb] that,
I had received letters from an attorney [Eb] _ _ [E] out of Jupiter, Florida, _ _ [G] cease and desist letters.
And [Am] I'm thinking, what is this all about?
It was [Em] Don [Db] getting this attorney to send me these letters to cease [Bb] and desist from using [G] _
Grand Funk Railroad
associated with my [F] advertising on one of my solo shows.
[A] He didn't want me to say it at all, you know.
And [Gb] so I asked my attorney, I sent it to him, I [G] said, what is it?
He says, throw it in a wastebasket.
He says, there's [C] no teeth in this. _
[Eb] They don't have the right to do [Dbm] this, because there's case law.
You are a [G] third owner of that trademark, [A] and each one of you can use the trademark. _
But I kept [Gb] getting these letters, you know, from this attorney, [E] _ and I never [C] responded.
I never responded.
Then we did this reunion tour, and Don [F] Brewer came to me one night [Am] in the hotel room [Gb] after a gig,
and we'd, you know, _ [Bb]
party, [A] and hey, we're all friends.
[Gb] And he comes and he says, we need to all of us sign our ownership of the trademark
into the [Em] corporation where it will have some protection umbrella or [G] some crap.
And I didn't see it coming.
I did not see it, because I thought he was my friend.
[A] At that time [Eb] he had me convinced that he was my friend.
_ But when [G] he said, I got the papers up in my room, after I [C] said, yeah, okay, I'll do that,
he says, well, [Db] I got the papers in my room.
I'm thinking, wow, he just happened [Em] to have those papers in his room.
I didn't put two and two together until I had already signed the ownership,
[Eb] my one-third ownership, [C] into the corporation.
_ [Ab] Then [Eb] two out of three in the corporation _ _ _ makes a decision.
[Ab] It doesn't matter if you wrote all [Em] the songs.
If you've got two [F] guys against your one, and [G] they vote you out of the corporation as an officer,
_ [Eb]
like they did me, [B] I don't have any say-so over [C] that trademark or anything to do with it anymore.
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_ But [B] I found that [Em] out the hard way.
But I [G] didn't want to go to court.
_ _ [Eb] You're not supposed to go to court.
You don't [G] win.
No.
_ You know who wins.
Nobody wins.
The attorneys win.
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That's how it happened.
[F] _ _ I'm [C] kind of stuck with it.
I was taken in [Em] front of a federal judge _ because of _ _ these [F]
infringements [Eb] [Bb] on the trademark
and _ _ [F] infractions that they've cited.
[Gb] And this [F] federal judge is sitting up there just listening to this.
[Gb] He could be hearing a real case, and he's got this _ little.
_ He told me that [G] he didn't want to see me back in his courtroom
and that if he did, he was going to be very severe on [C] me.
This guy [Bb] does not know the music business.
He does [Eb] not know that I wrote all those songs.
[Gb] He doesn't know the association.
Why [Bm] doesn't he know that?
[Gb] Why didn't he know that?
He _ didn't know it because _ _ [C] all he wanted [G] to _ set in judgment [E] over was this [N] _ _ [Eb] _ trademark infringement.
And that's the only [C] thing he'd hear is how this [E] was violated.
But you know when a promoter gets this [C] contract that I sent out,
I have to have _ a copy [G] of the permanent injunctive order against me attached to that. _ _
[A] And then this promoter goes, _ [G] what the hell is this?
[Am] _ _ _ I'm going to have to hire an attorney to have this guy come and play?
_ No.
[Em] _
See ya.
So my dates have went _ _ south, man, [G] _ from doing 60 to 80 a year down to less than [Eb] 20, _ _ _ _ _
which [Bb] I'm glad to do those.
I'm glad to play when I [Em] can.
But [Ab] _ that whole, _ _ you know, somebody, [Em] you know, mean _ [A]-hearted, hateful person, _
_ they're [G] using the law [B] to keep you from putting [C] food on the table for your family? _ _
Something in the milk ain't cream. _ _ _ _
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