G                                  C
You wake up in the morning drink a beer and take a Valium

           G                                              D7
And you're trying to forget about the things you did last night

     G                                   C
Flip through that morning paper read the horoscope and the comics

          G                               D7          G
You're as well informed as anybody on the left or the right


G                                C
You make it to your job and hear Atlanta lost another

        G                                             D7
How can you lose while making half a million bucks or near

    G                                        C
The old man who sweeps the floor and wears a big blue Reagan button

         G                                 D7            G
Says the Russians are a coming but they've been here for years


       C                             G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels

         D7               G
It's the all new American diet

       C                             G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels

        C                G             D7           G
You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life


G                                    C
There's a story in the paper about a man who killed his family

          G                                           D7
He jumped off a bridge because he couldn't take it anymore

     G                     C
Down at the local tavern a young man comes in limping

       G                                 D7               G
And he claims that he's a veteran of the Falkland Islands war


G                                      C
You head home and you're accosted by a youngster wearing robes

            G                                         D7
And wanting money for his God who sits upon a plastic throne

    G                                 C
You ignore him if you can and make it to the local tavern

          G                              D7            G
Where you order up a drink and give some money to your own


       C                             G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels

         D7               G
It's the all new American diet

       C                             G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels

        C                G             D7           G
You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life


                                        G
There's a man in Tennessee who's got it figured out completely

  G                                              D7
I guess that he's as happy as a thinking man can be

  G                                     C
I asked him what he thought and he said brother let me tell you

      G                                D7              G
Try a little bit of both and leave out everything in between


       C                             G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels

         D7               G
It's the all new American diet

       C                             G
Trying everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels

        C                G             D7           G
You get on it and you're on it for the rest of your life