Socrates chords by Sawyer Brown

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: F

♫ 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