Chords for Mitchell Trio feat. John Denver- "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood KKK" 1966 [RITY Archive]

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_ _ _ _ _ The Mitchell Trio is rarely seen and heard on television.
In fact, I have heard they're banned on a few radio stations too, aren't you?
Something like that.
However, for the past seven years, the trio has been a dynamic entry in the field of nightclubs and recordings,
_ biting satire on issues both social and political, _ most entertaining.
So welcome for their first appearance with us.
Here's the Mitchell Trio. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Is there a clavern in your town?
In your town?
_ If not, then why [G] not have us down?
_ Have us _ down!
_ _ [E] _ [C] You'll never recognize us, [F] there's a smile upon [D#] our face.
[C] We're changing [A] all our dirty [D] sheets and a-cleaning [G] up the place.
[C] Yep, since we got a lawyer [F] and a public [A] relations [Am] man, we're your friendly [E] _ [C] Ku Klux Klan.
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Yes, we're your friendly [Am] neighborhood Ku [C] Klux Klan.
_ Ever since we [A] got that [D] lawyer and that public [G] relations man,
[C] first we did shoot one [Gm] reporter, [F] but he was just [Am] obscene, _
and he can't call [A] us no filthy names.
What's his Anglo [Em]
-Saxon name?
_ Allemand left, Allemand [G] right.
What do the ladies' auxiliaries mean?
[Em] Because the Klans [F] collected so much [F#m] cash [A] that now by gum we're rich white trash.
[C] I've heard it said our [F] leadership's not qualified [D#] to lead.
Well, [A] I'm telling you that just ain't true, [Am] why, three of [G] them can read!
[C] Take a grand [Gm] exalted dragon, [F] now some folks think he's [Em] bad,
but you should meet his [A] sweet old mother and [D] her brother, _ [G] who's [C] his dad.
Yes, they're [F] your friendly neighborhood [C] Ku Klux Klan.
_ And he's gonna run [A] for governor as soon as he's out of the can.
[C] We're all from fine old families, [F] the pride of all [C] these hills.
Yep, seven [A] generations at the [G] same illegal _ stills.
Had a [C] little rally the [D#] other [Gm] night, shot uptown in a fury.
[C] Luke's arrested.
[F] Paws on trial.
[G] Now the rest of us are on the [A] jury.
[C] Now the curtain call us [F] deadbeats, and we'd like to [F#] say we're not.
[C] We'll all stand [A] on our record, and that's one thing [G] we've all got.
[C] And we only [Gm] have that arsenal [F] so that you [Am] won't raise no fuss.
[C] And if you don't [A] like that, then call the cops, [G] because chances are they're us.
[F] Yes, we're your friendly, [Am] liberal neighborhood Ku Klux [E] Klan.
_ _ [C] But somehow [A] we went from the [D] fire to the [G] frying pan.
[C] We never learned to hold a [F] job, and we never learned [A] to write.
[C] But boy, [E] we sure have learned our oaks, because we use them [C] every night.
Now when Congress calls, you [F] don't get [Gm] stuck.
Just start confessing and pass [Em] the buck.
The club blames the [F] klaxon.
The klaxon [G] blames the Klingel.
The Klingel blames the Grand Imperial [Am] Eagle.
The eagle blames the wizard.
The [Fm] wizard blames the [Gm] dragon.
The dragon takes the blame, but he's [C] just bragging.
Now we're out to show the Congress [F] that we're oh so [A] nice and meek.
[C] Why we never [A] even take the fifth, because we drank that all [G] last week.
[C] And you'll never hear us shoot in the [F] bar hanging people [C] high.
Because we're learning to [A] respect the law and [G] to have an [C] alibi. _ _
_ _ Oh, come, come, come, come.
_ Come to the church in the _ [G] wild.
_ _ _ And those dirty lying witnesses.
_ _ _ [C] _ Lord, forgive them what they speak.
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[F] We would go to church [G] and pray for them, [C] _
_ except we blew it up last week.
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_ _ [F] Yes, we're your friendly [F#] liberal men with [C] Ku Klux Klan.
_ _ And we sure do [A] thank that lawyer and that public relations man.
[C] So we're sorry that we hung _ them.
_ [F] But they did have quite [F#m] a tan.
[Cm] _ _ [C] And it sure [Am] confused your friendly liberal _ [A] misunderstood.
_ [E] Your friendly neighborhood Klan who [C] asks, what's [A] wrong with the hood?
Your friendly [G] liberal neighborhood Ku Klux.
Grab your [E] Cadillac and head for the hills.
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