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Thread #16642   Message #156574
Posted By: raredance
01-Jan-00 - 11:24 AM
Thread Name: Chords: Draft Dodger Rag
Subject: Chords Add: DRAFT DODGER RAG (Phil Ochs)
"The Complete Phil Ochs" songbook lists the following set of chords. I always dropped it down a step to F, since my uneducated fingers could manage the F-F#-G progression more easily than G-G#-A.

(G)I'm just a typical American boy from (G#)a (A)typical American town,
I be-(D7)lieve in God and Senator Dodd and in keeping old Castro (G)down
And when it came my time to serve I (G#)knew (A)better dead than red,
But (D7)when I got to my old draft board, Buddy, this is what I (G)said.

This song was not horrendously popular in 1965 when I highschool group I was in sang it in southern Wisconsin dairy country

rich r