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Lyr Req: I'm Not Ready for Cloning (Tom Paxton)

10 May 14 - 02:30 AM (#3625170)
Subject: Lyr Req: I'm Not Ready for Cloning (Tom Paxton)
From: GUEST

Do anybody know about one of the short shelf-life songs where Tom expresses his uneasiness towards human cloning. I don't think Tom ever released it on any album, but he sure have performed it in concerts and TV shows. Looking for the lyrics and chords to that song. Thanks for help


04 Mar 15 - 11:22 PM (#3691582)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Not Ready for Cloning (Tom Paxton)
From: GUEST,Cousin Bill

[From memory, in key of C.]

(Chorus:)

F                C
I don't think I'm ready for Cloning,
G                   C
I don't go for that stuff.
F                     C
Get right down to it, you might agree
G            C
One of me is enough.

(Verse Form:)

/            G
Don't take a cell from me
             C
When I'm not lookin',
               G
'Cause I don't wanna know
             C
What you been cookin'.
                F                           C
Don't ask me to come and see your laborato- ry,
                   G
Where you open this giant microwave
             G7      /       /       /
And out steps me, and me, and me, and me... (Chorus)


Now you can take a bug
All stuck in amber,
Come up with a dinosaur
Doin' a Samb'er.
Well you're messin' with Mother Nature, bub,
And God only knows,
You might wake up with 3 or 4-hundred H. Ross Perots. (Chorus)


Enjoy