Why Modern Radio Is A-ok chords by Roman Candle

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Why Modern Radio is A-OK – Roman Candle

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I was down at my favorite watering hole
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With a buddy of mine that was out on parole
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And we were flipping through the jukebox,
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And talking how we’d been and how we are.

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He got a library card and he’d pierced his tongue
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And a buddy in prison had turned him onto Neil Young
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And he thought it’d be best to play some for the entire bar.

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Now he didn't know it but while he was in Jail
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I had my heart broke by a woman too wondrous to tell
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And we’d fallen in love to half the songs that jukebox played

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So when he flattened his dollar on the side of the machine
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And I saw comes a time come on the karaoke screen
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I realized there was a couple things I had forgot to say:

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Don't play Neil Young
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Don't play Van Morrison
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Just let some high school emo band start versing and chorusing
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Because there’s no way it will break my heart as far as I can see
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And that's why modern radio is A augmentedA ok with me.


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He said a pop song used to be a powerful thing,
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You could turn on the am and John Lennon would sing
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Or Frank Sinatra would be talking to all of the girls.

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And you could think like a hawk or think like a dove
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Or think of a winter afternoon when you fell in love and
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Ten songs on a record sounded like a string of pearls.

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Well my buddy rattled on till an hour’d gone by
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And I thought I'd spit a mouthful of Beam in his eye
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Maybe leave him for dead, but a friend is a friend to stay.

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So I listened to him talk about Johnny and June
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And how "I Don't Know Where I Stand" is a true love tune
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And I bought another round just in time to hear him say:

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They don't play Sam Cooke
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They don't play Merle Watson
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They just trade some Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham for a broke down Datsun
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And theres no way it can break my heart as far as I can see

And that's why modern radio is a sack of monkeys to me.

Harmonica Solo:

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He said it makes me so mad I want to get out and shout it
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And I smiled and said I hadnt thought that much about it
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And we walked out to the street and parted ways

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I mightve gone to a movie, but my money was spent
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So I went straight home, and Lord knows where he went
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But I wrote myself a letter to all modern djs

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Don't play Bob Dylan
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Don't play Loose Ends
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Don't play anybody that's ever heard Sir Patrick Spens
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Because there's no way it can break my heart, as far as I can see
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And that is why modern radio is A-OK with me.

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