Elvis Presley - Clean Up Your Own Backyard

[intro]
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[verse 1]
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Back porch preacher preaching at me
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Acting like he wrote the golden rules
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Shaking his fist and speeching at me
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Shouting from his soap box like a fool
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Come Sunday morning he's lying in bed

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With his eye all red, with the wine in his head

Wishing he was dead

When he oughta be heading
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for Sunday school

[chorus]
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Clean up your own backyard
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Oh don't you hand me none of your lines
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Clean up your own backyard
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You tend to your business,
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I'll tend to mine

[verse 2]
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Drugstore cowboy criticizing
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Acting like he's better than you and me
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Standing on the sidewalk supervising
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Telling everybody how they ought to be
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Come closing time 'most every night
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He locks up tight and out go the lights
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And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife
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With his employee

[chorus]
                      A7
Clean up your own backyard
                                  E7
Oh don't you hand me none of your lines
              B7
Clean up your own backyard
A7
You tend to your business,
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I'll tend to mine

[interlude]
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[verse 3]
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Armchair quarterback's always moanin'
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Second guessing people all day long
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Pushing, fooling and hanging on in
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Always messing where they don't belong
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When you get right down to the nitty-gritty
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Isn't it a pity that in this big city
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Not a one a'little bitty man'll admit
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He could have been a little bit wrong

[chorus]
                      A7
Clean up your own backyard

Oh don't you hand me,
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don't you hand me none of your lines
              B7
Clean up your own backyard
A7
You tend to your business,
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I'll tend to mine

              B7
Clean up your own backyard
A7
You tend to your business,
                   E7
I'll tend to mine ...
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