Gonna Do This By Myself

Here's the latest caused by too much time on the train.  If you want to hear it, click on the link under MP3 Files.

Gonna Do This By Myself

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An ant went a crawling from the hill one day
             A7                                            D
And he came upon a boulder that was in his way
      D                                                    G
He couldn't budge or push it, twas a monstrous task
                A7                                       D
And the only way to move it was for help to ask

         A7                                                   D

But instead of getting others who could do the work
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He just talked about his neighbors living in the earth
            G
He had lots of friends and brothers who were black and red
            A7                                               D
But he wouldn't go and get them, this is what he said

CHORUS:

D                       G             A7
And they don't think like me
       A7                     D
I'll keep my individuality
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And I don't need no help
                 A7                  D
I'm gonna do this by myself

     D                                 A7

A tiny little minnow in a school of fish
      A7                                                D
He loved to swim just anywhere that he did wish
      D                                 G
He didn't like associating in a school
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Thinking that to be alone was how he could be cool

           A7                                               D

So he swam far from the others he was by himself
             E7                                          D
He was far enough away he couldn't yell for help
                D                                               G
So when danger was approaching he was all alone
             A7                                                    D
All the while he was complaining 'bout the fish back home

CHORUS:

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A goose took to flying when the weather got cold
           A7                                          D
But he didn't like the flock or other geese I'm told
           D                                        G
So he started out a flyin' way out on his own
              A7                                        D
And he didn't even care where other geese had flown

               A7                                             D

Then the weather got all stormy and the wind did blow
             E7                                                   D
And he didn't know which way it was that he should go
           G
But he still was so determined that he'd find the way
           A7                                            D
If you asked about the others, this is what he'd say

CHORUS:

        D                                             A7

Well the ant and the goose and the minnow did yearn
            A7                                            D
To do everything alone, each had his way to learn
                D                                               G
And they wouldn't take advice about the way to live
                 A7                                                           D
Cause the world was made for them, there was no need to give

               A7                                                 D

So their lives were very hard, and they did get no help
                     E7                                      D
'Cause they couldn't trust another, only they themselves
         D                                                G
They wouldn't go with others in their work or play
         A7                                                   D
And if you asked them why this is what they would say

CHORUS:

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Then the ant fell in the water where the fish did play
                E7               D
And was eaten by the minnow with no word to say
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Then the minnow too was swallowed as the goose did swim
               A7                                                   D
Before a hunter shot the bird who looked so good to him

CHORUS:

D                      G           A7

See they don't think like we
A7                                 D
They kept their individuality
                    G           A7
They didn't need no help
                          A7            D
They went and died all by themselves