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Intro: C G F C
verse 1
C
Well, some days you wake up
G
And life feels meaningless
You don’t even have the strength
C
To get up and get dressed
Then when you do, you see your
G
Clothes are all torn to shreds
And you can’t even afford to buy
C
A needle and thread
C
So, you might go to church to
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Bow your head and pray
But that ain’t always enough to
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Get through the day
Sometimes you’ll feel bitter, you’ll
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Say that this priest is a mooch
And you might just take all of
C
Your tithes with a bottle of hooch
chorus
F
And if people knew, they would
C
Look down on you
G
Don’t they know that it’s true?
F G C
Jesus was a wino, too
verse 2
C
People may ask, “why have your
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Lips turned black?”
“hey, what the hell is so funny,
Man? why have your eyes gone
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Slack?“
They might feel high and mighty
G
When i can barely stand
Well, just tell them i couldn’t turn
Down one my glass of the blood
C
Of the lamb
chorus
F
Because if people knew, they
C
Would call me a fool
G
I wish they knew it was true:
F C
Jesus was a wino, too was a wino too
chorus
F
Because if people knew, they
C
Would call me a fool
G
I wish they knew it was true:
F C
Jesus was a wino, too
verse 3
F
And this here six-dollar bottle is
C
Just about that all i can afford
D
If i can’t find a corkscrew, i’ll just
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Smash it open right here on the
Floor
C
And you might call me crazy for
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Lapping this off the ground
But a few years ago i would be
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Drinking with jesus right now
‘cause they may not have had
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Carlo rossi way back in his day
Jesus had only water but he
F C
Turned it to wine anyway
chorus
F
And nobody asked, “what would
C
Jesus do?”
G F
‘cause everybody knew jesus
C
Was a wino, too
F
No, nobody asked, “what would
C
Jesus do?”
G F
‘cause everybody knew jesus
C
Was a wino, too
C F C F
Ah huhhhhhh ah huh
Written by Lydia Loveless