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"Oh Abraham" - by John Gorka 2001 from the CD "The Company You Keep"

Capo on 4th fret

C                  F
I see a penny and I pick it up

C                        F
If not the money I could use the luck

G                            F
And if it's face down then I turn it over

G                            F         G   C 
Head for Wood Avenue between Inman and New Dover

        F              C    F
Back to my hometown...


C              F
Gas is cheaper where I'm from

        C                F
But the driving's not so good

C                        F  
People go and stay where they should not

               C            F
And they don't do it like I would

G               F 
Work is not the same as before

G             F     G          C        F         C    F
More software hands in the hardware store  yeah, yeah



Am           G
Oh, Abraham, look at all the money now

F                G
Oh, Abraham, good night

F                       G
It's your party but I'll cry if I want to

F                                                G              C      F
I wouldn't care how much they have if they would only do what's right


I was born by a Kerouac steam
Under Eisenhower skies
They saw freedom as a big idea
Now it was right before my eyes
They said Jack helped to build the Pentagon
And Ike built the interstate that we are off and on


Oh, Abraham, was it all about the money then?
Oh, Abraham, good night
It's your party but I'll cry if I want to
All moneyed up and charmed with might, so we are right, we're always right


C                               F 
We're right, they're wrong, let them get their own song (twice)


C                   F
I see a penny and I pick it up

C                        F
Ninety nine more and I'll have a buck

C                     G   
Abe, you were born in old Kentuck'

    F        G        C  F  C
But we still miss you here