Chords for Timothy Sawyer - Where's the R in Massachusetts

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_ Oh, you know who else is here? _ _
_ _ _ [N] My very dear old friends that I've known since college days.
_ Wow.
_ Thank you for coming.
_ _ You know, ever since I left my hometown in San Francisco _ and traveled east in my rickety
old beat up jeep to start school in Boston, _ _ I've been _ pondering something.
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ You _ _ will hear the R in Oregon, _ _ _ [B] where [Fm]
everything is green.
_ [Gb] You'll hear it [Db] down in Florida, [Eb] where they grow the [Ab] _ nectarine.
_ _ In [Db] the Colorado Rockies, [B] where the air [Fm] is crystal clear.
_ [Gb] And the [Bbm] shores of [Eb] [Db] California, [B] where seabirds _ [Ab] persevere.
_ _ _ [F] But [Gb] not in [Db]
Massachusetts.
_ [Gb] In Boston it is [Db] banned.
_ [Gb] There is no [Db] R in [C]
[Bb] Fenway Pack.
_ _ [Eb] I _ relobsters [Ab] from Cape _ [C] _ _
[B] _ Heen.
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_ _ [Db] Where's the R in Massachusetts?
Founding fathers, may God bless.
[Gb] When they [Db] came to this new [Eb] land, found naught [Ab] betwixt the Q and [Db] S.
From New York State to Buzzards Bay, the Commonwealth has none.
[Gb] Even [G] Beacon Hill [B] Society has not [Ab] a single one.
[Gb] Cause your [Db] R's ain't welcome in [Fm] the [Bb] Commonwealth.
[Eb] Not [Ab] in [C] Massachusetts [Db]
anyway.
_ _ _ _ _ When John Winthrop came to Cambridge back in 1632, [Ab] [Gb] he called the [Db] village Newtown.
[Eb] Because the [Ab] town was new.
[Db]
He could have called it Marshtown.
There were marshes everywhere.
[Bbm] But they couldn't [Eb] choose a [Db] word with [B] R.
There weren't no [Fm] R's to spy on.
[Gb] Cause your R's [Db] ain't welcome in the [Ab] [Bb] Commonwealth.
_ [Eb]
Not in [Ab] Massachusetts [Db] anyway. _ _ _ _
_ _ John Harvard preached the dogma.
Three R's, word [Ab] of God.
But [Gb] R's are [Db] [Ab] unacceptable in the land of the bean and cod.
[Db] So John went off to heaven, but his legacy [Fm] begat.
A [F] college [Eb] they call [Db] [B] Harvard, where they teach [Ab] liberal arts.
[Gb] Cause your [Db] R's ain't welcome in [C] the [Bb] Commonwealth.
_ [Eb] Not in [Ab] Massachusetts [Db] anyway.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now Captain Kidd the pirate, in Boston's highest court,
[Gb] was [F] asked why [Eb] he had [Db] broke the [Ab] law.
And [Eb] this was his retort.
[Db] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Ay, worst thing he could have said.
[Gb] They shipped him [Eb] off to [Bbm] London [B] town to be hanged by the [Ab] neck till dead.
[Gb] Cause his R's [Db] ain't welcome in the [C] _ [Bb] Commonwealth.
[Eb] Not in [Ab]
[Bb] Massachusetts [Db] anyway. _ _ _ _ _ _
Sam Adams sought to cut the tie [Ab] with [Dbm] England, you see.
[Gb] The R's he found [Db] in the British crown [Eb] was best kept [Ab] overseas.
[Db] He'd go into the taverns with his big black dog named Q,
[Gb] who was [Bbm] trained to bite the [B] buttocks of the [Ab] Redcoats drinking brew.
[Gb] Cause their R's ain't [Db] welcome in [Ab] the [Bb]
Commonwealth.
[Eb] Not [Ab] in Massachusetts [Db] anyway. _
_ _ _ _ Where's the R in Massachusetts founding fathers, may God bless.
[Gb] When they [Db] came to this new [Eb] land found naught [Ab] betwixt the Q and [Db] S.
From New York State to Buzzards Bay, the Commonwealth has none.
[Gb] Even [Bbm] Meek and Hill [B] Society has not [C] a single one.
[Gb] Cause your [Db] R's ain't welcome in [Fm] the [Bb] Commonwealth.
_ [Eb] Not in [Ab]
Massachusetts [Db] anyway.
_ _ [Ab] [Gb] No, your R's [Fm] ain't welcome.
[Gb] Your [Db] R's ain't [Ab] welcome.
[Gb] Your R's [Db] ain't welcome in the [Fm] [Bb] Commonwealth.
_ [Eb] Not in [Ab]
Massachusetts.
[Eb] Never [Ab] Massachusetts.
[Eb] Not in [Ab]
Massachusetts [Gb] anyway.
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