Socrates

Simplificar Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: FCapotraste: 3rd traste As recorded by Sawyer Brown (2024 release) Capo 3rd fret [Intro] D G D G [Verse 1] D G I was in a country band in the 1970s D Bm7 A One night we had a flat on the van, on the way out to Tennessee D G Asked an old mechanic, name of Johnson, for some air A G D G And everybody called him "Socrates" [Verse 2] D "Hey. What's goin' on?" G "Not much of nothin'. How 'bout you?" D Bm7 A G And that's the way it's done in our hometown D G He could talk a stream of nonsense, just as pretty as you please A G D And everybody called him "Socrates" [Verse 3] G D G But he said, "Fame and fortune are easily confused, as are luck and destiny D Bm7 A Are you bein' loved, boys, or bein' used? Runnin' wild or bein' free?" G D G He said, "The answers to your questions are more questions such as these." A G D And everybody called him "Socrates" [Guitar Solo] D G Em7 A D G Em7 D [Verse 4] D G I got to know him well, I even worked with him a while D Bm7 A G He had an old guitar we'd pass around once in a while D G I never will forget the last few words he said to me A G D When I finally quit old Socrates [Bridge] F#m G Em7 A "Do you know what you are capable of knowing? F#m G Em7 Do your hands, son, ever touch the soil? A F#m G Em7 A And do you love all that you are capable of lovin'? Bm A G And do you want me to check that oil?" A G D G Everybody called him "Socrates" [Verse 5] D Yeah, the Christians found him crazy G And the derelicts agreed A G But everybody called him A G Everybody called him A G Everybody called him D "Socrates" [Outro] G D G D G D G D G D G D G D G D G D