[ti:Clean up your own backyard]
[ar:Elvis Presley]
[al:]
[00:00.40]Words&Music by Billy Strange / Mac Davis
[00:09.96]
[00:12.82]Back porch preacher preaching at me,
[00:17.87]acting like he wrote the golden rules.
[00:22.49]Shaking his fist and speeching at me,
[00:27.45]shouting from his soap box like a fool.
[00:32.24]Come Sunday morning, he's lying in bed
[00:34.64]with his eye all red, with the wine in his head,
[00:37.16]wishing he was dead when he oughta be
[00:39.25]heading for Sunday school.
[00:42.10]
[00:43.40]Clean up your own backyard!
[00:48.56]Oh, don't you hand me none of your lines.
[00:54.63]Clean up your own backyard!
[00:58.03]You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine!
[01:02.71]
[01:05.56]Drugstore cowboy criticizing,
[01:10.32]acting like he's better than you and me,
[01:15.13]standing on the sidewalk supervising,
[01:19.95]telling everybody how they ought to be.
[01:24.69]Come closing time 'most every night,
[01:27.30]he locks up tight and out go the lights.
[01:29.67]And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife
[01:32.30]with his employee.
[01:33.62]
[01:35.79]Clean up your own backyard!
[01:40.80]Oh, don't you hand me none of your lines.
[01:46.74]Clean up your own backyard!
[01:50.16]You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine!
[01:56.94]
[02:02.55]Armchair quarterback's always moanin',
[02:07.29]second guessing people all day long,
[02:12.22]pushing, fooling and hanging on in,
[02:16.95]always messing where they don't belong.
[02:21.62]When you get right down to the nitty-gritty
[02:24.04]Isn't it a pity that in this big city
[02:26.62]not a one a'little bitty man'll admit
[02:28.68]he could have been a little bit wrong.
[02:31.06]
[02:32.57]Clean up your own backyard!
[02:37.76]Oh don't you hand me.. don't you hand me none of your lines.
[02:43.75]Clean up your own backyard!
[02:47.15]You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine!
[02:51.56]
[02:53.64]Clean up your own backyard!
[02:56.98]You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine!
[03:01.05]
[03:02.07]Recorded: 1968/10/23, first released on single
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[03:04.22]HxG