Who Needs The Peace Corps
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[Verse 1]
Cadd9 F#m
What's there to live for?
Cadd9 Em F#m
Who needs the Peace Corps?
F#m Gadd9
Think I'll just drop out
Aadd9
I'll go to Frisco
Aadd9
Buy a wig and sleep on Owsley's floor
[Verse 2]
Cadd9 F#m
Walked past the wig store
Cadd9 Em F#m
Danced at the Fillmore
Gadd9
I'm completely stoned
Aadd9
I'm hippy and I'm trippy
Aadd9
I'm a gypsy on my own
Aadd9
I'll stay a week & get the crabs & take a bus back home
Aadd9
I'm really just a phony
Aadd9
But forgive me 'cause I'm stoned
A C A C
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[Chorus 1]
Fadd9 Dadd9
Every town must have a place
Cadd9 Dadd9
Where phony hippies meet
Fadd9 Dadd9
Psychedelic dungeons
Cadd9 Dadd9
Popping up on every street
D C F E F E D C D
Go to San Francisco
[Bridge]
Cadd9
How I love ya, how I love ya
Cadd9 F#m
How I love ya, how I love ya Frisco
Cadd9
How I love ya, how I love ya
Cadd9
How I love ya, how I love ya
Gadd9
Oh, my hair is getting good in the back
[Chorus 2]
Fadd9 Dadd9
Every town must have a place
Cadd9 Dadd9
Where phony hippies meet
Fadd9 Dadd9
Psychedelic dungeons
Cadd9 Dadd9
Popping up on every street
D C F E F E D C D
Go to San Francisco, hotcha
[Interlude]
Cadd9
First I'll buy some beads
F#m Cadd9
And then perhaps a leather band to go around my head
F#m
Some feathers and bells
Cadd9 F#m
And a book of Indian lore
Cadd9
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
F#m
How to get to Haight Street
Cadd9
And smoke an awful lot of dope
F#m
I will wander around barefoot
Cadd9 F#m
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
Cadd9
I will love everyone
F#m Cadd9
I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street
F#m
I will sleep
Cadd9
I will, I will go to a house
F#m
That's, that's what I will do, I will go to a house
Cadd9
Where there's a rock and roll band
F#m
'Cause the groups all live together
Cadd9
And I will join a rock & roll band
F#m
I will be their road manager
Cadd9
And I will stay there with them
F#m
And I will get the crabs but I won't care
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