Cheryl Wheeler - Unworthy

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here's another song i really wish i'd written.(but she beat me to it!!)

 easy to follow along with the cd.

 any corrections,comments, editorial replies, etc. are welcome.



laura

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Unworthy 

Words and Lyrics by: 

Cheryl Wheeler



capo II



E... 



E     

I'm unworthy, and no matter what I'm doing,

                                      B

I should certainly be doing something else. 



And it's selfish to be thinking I'm unworthy,

                                                 E

all this me, me, me, me, self, self, self, self, self.

 

If I'm talking on the phone I should be working on the lawn 

                                                  A

which looks disgraceful from the things I haven't done.

       F#m

If I'm working on the lawn I should be concentrating on

                                              B

those magazines inside, since I have not read one. 



         E    

I should learn how to meditate and sew and bake

                                          B

and dance and paint and sail and make gazpacho.

 

I should turn my attention to repairing 

                                             E

all those forty year old socks there in that bureau.

 

I should let someone teach me to run Windows,

                                                A

and learn French that I can read and write and speak. 

         F#m

I should get life in prison for how I treated my parents 

                            B

from third grade until last week.

 

         E

I should spend more time playing with my dog

                                            B

and much less money on this needless junk I buy.

 

I should send correspondence back to everyone 

                                            E

who's written, phoned or faxed since junior high.

 

I should sit with a therapist until I understand

                          A

the way I felt back in my mom.

         F#m

I should quit smoking, drinking, eating, thinking

                                       B

sleeping, watching TV, writing stupid songs.



         E 

I should be less impatient when the line just takes forever

                            B

'cause the two cashiers are talking.

 

I should see what it's like to get up really early rain or shine 

                      E

and spend three hours walking.

 

I should know CPR and deep massage and Braille 

                                       A

and sign language and how to change my oil.

         F#m

I should go where the situation's desperate

                                            B

and build and paint and trudge and tote and toil.

 

         E

I should chant in impossible positions 

                                    B

till my legs appear to not have any bones. 



I should rant at the cops and politicians

                                   E

and the corporations-in indignant tones. 

      

I should save lots of money to leave Audubon,

                                    A

plus all the rocks and animals and plants.

         F#m

I should brave possibilities for plotting plums of problems

 

prob'ly blossomed, plausibly from

 

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

                                                E

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I'm unworthy.