Socrates Chords

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[Verse 1]
[D]Socrates was onto something
centuries ago
When he said to know yourself
is all you need to know
At [G]first I didn't get it,
wrote him off as old and bent
[D]Now I've got some years behind me,
I know what he meant
It's the [A]voyage of a lifetime,
it's the road that never ends
It's [G]staying straight and true
when everybody's got the bends
It's [A]working out what I'm about
and [G]letting others be
So thank you, [D]Socrates
Moses heard the voice of God
and transcribed every word
Thou shalt not this, thou shalt not that,
was all he ever heard
Well [G]we can't really blame him,
he was a victim of [Gm]his times
[G]But [D]let's thank God for Jesus,
he took a different line
Like [A]love your brother as yourself,
that's all you need to do
[G]If he asks you for your shirt,
[Gm]give him your jack[G]et too
[A]Stick with me and I'll show
you [G]a place in paradise
Thank you [D]Jesus Christ
I [A]have to say my heroes
never [G]were the spotting kind
I [D]gravitated to the ones
who [A]exercised my mind
And even though they're
dead and gone
And that [G]contribution lingers
only in [D]me[A]
[D]Imperfectly
Elgin Spitzer had it figured out
He got the third degree
Philosophy and medicine
And of course, theology
And [G]somewhere in his spare time
He wrote the book on Bach
For [D]him all human knowledge
Was a brisk walk in the park
[G]Till he [A]realized that action
Said much more than words could say
Built a [G]clinic in the jungle
For the folks in Lambonet
[A]Taught us all the simple truth
Of [G]reverence for life
Thank you [D]Albert [Dsus4]Schweitzer
[D]Mortimer
J. Adler was a man with great ideas
Believed that education starts
at the end of our school years
De[G]signed a lifelong reading plan
from Homer through to Freud
[D]Making sure our minds at least
are never unemployed
[A]Proved that books are pointless
if you leave them on a shelf
That we [G]don't know just what we know
[D]Till we [G]show someone else
[A]Without him I don't think this song
[G]Could have come this far
Thank you [D]Mortimer
Thank you Albert Schweitzer
[G]Thank you [D]Jesus Christ
[G]Thank you, [D]Socrates