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[Verse 1]
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There's a place
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I can get to
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Where I'm safe
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From the city blues
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And its green
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And its quiet
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  Only trouble was
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I had to buy it
 
[Chorus]
            C                 Em
And I'll do anything I got to do
C                 Em
  Cut my hair and shine my shoes
    C                   Em
And keep on singin' the blues
         C
If I can stay here
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in Johnny's garden

[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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As the swift bird
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Flies over the grasses
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Dipping now and then
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To take his breakfast
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Thus I come and go
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And I travel
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But I can watch that bird
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And unravel
 
[Chorus]
            C                 Em
And I'll do anything I got to do
C                 Em
  Cut my hair and shine my shoes
    C                   Em
And keep on singin' the blues
         C
If I can stay here
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in Johnny's garden

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
         G    C
With his love
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And his carin'
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He puts his life
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Into beauty sharin'
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And his children
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Are his flowers
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  And they give me peace in quiet hours

[Chorus]
            C                 Em
And I'll do anything I got to do
C                 Em
  Cut my hair and shine my shoes
    C                   Em
And keep on singin' the blues
         C
If I can stay here
            G      C  G7  C
in Johnny's garden
 
[Outro]
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