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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1669229,"song":"Clean Up Your Own Backyard","artist":"Elvis Presley","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1669229-clean-up-your-own-backyard-chords-by-elvis-presley/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1669229?type=chord","rating":4.78802,"votes":5,"content":"Clean Up Your Own Backyard:Elvis Presley.\r\n#21 in UK and #35 on BB Hot 100 on RCA\r\nRecords in 1969.\r\n\r\nINTRO: [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n#1.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBack porch preacher preaching at me, acting like [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nhe wrote the golden rules.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShaking his fist and screeching at me, shouting from [/tab]\r\n\r\nhis soap box like a fool.\r\n[tab]     [ch]B[/ch]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCome Sunday morning he's lying in bed with his eyes [/tab]\r\n\r\nall red, with the wine in his head..wishing he was \r\n[tab]                                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\ndead when he oughta be heading for Sunday school.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nClean up your own backyard..oh, don't you hand me none [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nof your lines.[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nClean up your own backyard..you tend to your business, [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'll tend to mine.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#2.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nDrugstore cowboy criticizing, acting like he's better [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nthan you and me.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nStanding on the sidewalk supervising, telling everybody [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nhow they ought to be.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]B[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCome closing time most every night, he locks up tight and [/tab]\r\n\r\nout go the lights and he ducks out of sight and he cheats \r\n[tab]                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\non his wife with his employee.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nClean up your own backyard..oh, don't you hand me none [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nof your lines.[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nClean up your own backyard..you tend to your business, [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'll tend to mine.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#3.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nArmchair quarterback's always moanin', second guessing [/tab]\r\n\r\npeople all day long.\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                                  [ch]B[/ch]\r\nPushing, fooling and hanging on in, always messing where [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nthey don't belong.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]        [ch]B[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen you get right down to the nitty-gritty, isn't it a pity[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nthat in this big city not a one a'little bitty man'll admit[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nhe could have been a little bit wrong.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nClean up your own backyard..oh, don't you hand me none [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nof your lines.[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Bm[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nClean up your own backyard..you tend to your business, [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'll tend to mine.[/tab]\r\n\r\nOUTRO:\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]             [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nClean up your own backyard..you tend to your business, I'll [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\ntend to mine.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.","plain_text":"Clean Up Your Own Backyard:Elvis Presley.\n#21 in UK and #35 on BB Hot 100 on RCA\nRecords in 1969.\n\nINTRO: E B E\n\n#1.\n\n\n\n\nhis soap box like a fool.\n\n\nall red, with the wine in his head..wishing he was \n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n\n\n#2.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nout go the lights and he ducks out of sight and he cheats \n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n\n\n#3.\n\n\npeople all day long.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n\n\nOUTRO:\n\n\n\n\nA sixties smash from 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