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There's a place I can get to
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Where I'm safe from the city blues
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Where it's clean and it's quiet
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Only trouble was, I had to buy it
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I'd do anything I got to do
Am
Cut my hair and shine my shoes
Dm Am
Keep on singing the blues
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If I can stay here
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In Johnny's garden
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There's a swift road lies over the grasses
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Dipping now and then to take juice and breakfast
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This I come and go in my travels
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I watched that blow and unravel
CHORUS:
N.C. Dm Am A#
I'd do anything I got to do
Am
Cut my hair and shine my shoes
Dm Am
Keep on singing the blues
A#
If I can stay here
N.C. C F A# C
In Johnny's garden
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With his love and his caring
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Puts his life into beauty, sharing
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And his children are his flowers
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They bring me peace and quiet hours
CHORUS:
N.C. Dm Am A#
I'd do anything I got to do
Am
Cut my hair and shine my shoes
Dm Am
To keep on singing the blues
A#
If I can stay here
N.C. C F A# C
In Johnny's garden
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In Johnny's garden