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Cahoots: Hobs Hobgood
[C] [D] [G7]Phil Ochs
[Verse 1] – – – – – [C] I’m just a typical American boy from a [D] typical American town. [G7] I believe in God and Senator Dodd and [C] keeping old Castro down. [C] And when it came my time to serve, I [D] knew better dead than red. But when I [G7] got to my ol’ draft board, buddy this is what I [C] said:
[CHORUS] – – – – – [C] Sarge, I’m only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen, And I [D] always carry a purse. I got [G7] eyes like a bat, and my feet are flat, and my [C] asthma’s getting worse. Oh, [C] think of my career, my sweetheart dear, my [D] poor old invalid aunt. Besides, I [G7] ain’t no fool, I’m going to school, and I’m working in a defense [C] plant.
[Verse 2] – – – – – I got a [C] dislocated disc, and a racked up back, I’m [D] allergic to flowers and bugs, and when the [G7] bombshell hits I get epileptic fits, and I’m [C] addicted to a thousand drugs. I got the [C] weakness woes, I can’t touch my toes, I can [D] hardly reach my knees. and if the [G7] enemy came close to me, I’d probably start to [C] sneeze.
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[Verse 3] – – – – – I hate [C] Chou En Lai and I hope he dies, but [D] one thing you gotta see, that [G7] someone’s gotta go over there, and that [C] someone isn’t me. So I [C] wish you well, Sarge, give ’em hell, Yeah, [D] kill me a thousand or so. And [G7] if you ever get a war without blood and gore, Well I’ll be the first to [C] go.
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