These Are Not My People - Billy Joe Royal Chords
Chords: BB, Bm, Dm, G, C, D..Dm, F, Am
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Genre: pop, rock, country
These Are Not My People:Billy Joe Royal.
#113 on BB Hot 100 on Columbia Records
in 1967.
INTRO: Bm Dm G C D..Dm G C
#1.
F
First your mama and your papa sent you to the
C
finest school.
F
Never let it be said that their little darling
C
was a fool.
F G
With a credit card and your good name, your're
C F Dm
drawn like a moth to the flame..to the people of
G
the night where you more or less lost your cool.
#2.
C F
Yeah, you had 20/20 vision and still you were
C
walking around blind.
C F
Yes, and whether right or wrong, I still tag along
C
behind.
F G C
But you're flying too high for me, and if this is
F
how it's got to be.
Dm G
Then it's time to say, you go your way, I go mine.
G
It's been a gas, but I'm gonna have to pass.
CHORUS:
Dm C G C Am
These are not my people..these are not my people.
Dm G C
Looks like the end, my friend..gonna get in the wind,
my friend.
#3.
C F
You find yourself naked in the world with no place
C
to hide.
C F C
Then you felt the pulse of your mind and it had died.
F G
And all you rebels that have got no cause, and all
C F
you tigers that have got no claws.
Dm
They promise you the world on a string, but you know
G
they lied.
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