Home to Roost

Words and Music © 2009 by Howard Ashby Kranz

Em Am Em

1. I thought that I had got away with this;

F# B

it’s not stolen land; they never had a deed

Em Am Em

I took all their money; now they love me, cause I’m rich

F# B

And respect me cause I fill some of their needs

Am B7 Em C

Chorus: Home to roost, home to roost, all my unacknowledged truths

Am B7 Em

All my unsupported troops gather like chickens.

Am B7 Em C

All the wrong things I have been, all the truths I’ve had to spin

Am B7 Em

And especially those sins of oh-oh-mission.

Em Am Em

2. Money is magic, as long as you keep spending

F# B

It goes round and round and then it comes back home

Em Am Em

It gives and it gives, in a circle never ending

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At least until someone calls in the loan

Am B7 Em C

Chorus: Home to roost, home to roost, all my unacknowledged truths

Am B7 Em

All my unsupported troops gather like chickens.

Am B7 Em C

All the dreams left out to rust, all the underfunded trusts

Am B7 Em

all the promises gone bust, the sad ambitions.

Em Am Em

3. I’m turning over a new leaf at this time

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I will free my slaves and pay the current wage

Em Am Em

Bygones are bygones; starting now I’m color-blind,

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There’s no reason for you to feel any rage. Chorus