Jesus Was A Capricorn Chords

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Tuning:	E A D G B E
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************** JESUS WAS A CAPRICORN *************
 
Written and performed by Kris Kristofferson
 
Version of his live at the Philarmonic in 1972. Except the introduction there's
not a lot of difference with the album version.
 
Capo on the second fret
 
 
Intro:
           E
 
        e|-----0---0----------------|
        B|-----0---0----------------|
        G|-----1--------------------|
        D|--------------------------|
        A|-2-----------2h3h4---2----|
        E|-0------------------------|
 
 
Verse 1:
          E
        Jesus was a Capricorn
            A            E
        He ate organic foods
 
        He believed in love and peace
            F#              B
        And never wore no shoes
 
 
Verse 2:
          E
        Long hair, beard and sandles
              A                 E
        And a funky bunch of friends
 
        Reckon they'd just nail him up
          B               E
        If he come down again
 
 
Chorus:
             A                               E
        'Cause everybody's got to have somebody to look down on
             B                         A          E
        Who they can feel better than anytime they please
             A                               E
        Someone doin' somethin' dirty decent folks can frown on
             B                        A           E
        You can't find nobody else then help yourself to me
 
 
Verse 3:
         E
        Egg Heads cussin' Red neck's cussin'
           A               E
        Hippies for their hair
 
        Others laugh at straights who laugh at
         F#                    B
        Freaks who laugh at squares
 
 
Verse 4:
         E
        Some folks hate the Whites
             A                            E
        Who hate the Blacks who hate the Klan
 
        Most of us hate anything that
         B              E
        We don't understand
 
 
Chorus
             A                               E
        'Cause everybody's got to have somebody to look down on
             B                         A          E
        Who they can feel better than anytime they please
             A                               E
        Someone doin' somethin' dirty decent folks can frown on
             B                        A           E
        You can't find nobody else then help yourself to me
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Jesus Was A Capricorn – Kris Kristofferson

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The mis-heard lyrics in this transcription are a bit comical, actually. Let's hope black people don't actually hate clams.

Chordwise, it's okay, but the unknown tabber got a LOT of the lyrics wrong. Needs to clean the wax out of his ears and try again! :-)

Looks like many of the mistakes have been cleaned up, except rednecks cousin should be "cussin" If you look at any other lyric site, the gibberish version is what you see. Someone wrote it wrong and everyone else copied it wrong. Glad to see it is at least this close!