Gratitude (for Curt Flood)

	  		
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Now everyone’s walking like they’re rolling in dough. 
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Throwing all their money around just for show. 
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Acting like everything is coming to them and knowing that more is just around the bend. 

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But I’m the one who paved the way and laid my body in the road so you can walk on it today. 
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I stood right up when they tried to put me down. 
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You’re so high up, you forget to look down! 

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You call that gratitude? 
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Yeah, You call that gratitude 
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I’m the well-paid slave and the roads that I paved took my career, that’s just what I gave. 
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Five years later they were rolling in clover but nothing for me, my career was over. 

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If I’d been born just a generation later I could have settled up with an arbitrator. 
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I’d be wearing fur coats if I were rich with a “bum-bum-bitty-bitty-bum” 

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Yeah, You call that gratitude? 
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Yeah, You call that gratitude 
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Solo 

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On the day that I died and they laid me in the ground where was everybody? 
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They couldn’t be found. 
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I’m gone and they don’t know my name. 
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No plaque, no speech, no hall of fame.. 
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A-Rod, Zito, Posada, Tejada, Johan, Manny, Maddux, Mussina. 
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Who’s the one who paved the way with blood? 
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Go say my name—it’s (Flood!) Curt Flood! 

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You call that gratitude? 
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Yeah, You call that gratitude 
Dm Am B E 

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A-Rod, Zito, Posada, Tejada, Johan, Manny, Maddux, Mussina. 
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You call that gratitude?