Crippled Inside - John Lennon

Intro

(Slide Guitar)

GD7GDCG

CG7CFCG7CD

1.

GG7

You can shine your shoes and wear a suit,

CC7

You can comb your hair and look a quite cute.

G

You can hide your face behind a smile.

E7A7

One thing you can't hide,

DG

Is when you're crippled in-side.

2.

GG7

You can wear a mask and paint your face,

CC7

You can call yourself the human race.

G

You can wear a collar and a tie.

E7A7

One thing you can't hide,

DG

Is when you're crippled in-side.

Brid1

E7Em

Well know you know,

That your cat has nine lives, babe.

A7D/A

Nine lives to itself,

G

You only got one,

GEm7

And a dog's life ain't fun.

GDG

Mamma take a look out-side.

3.

GG7

You can go to church and sing a hymn,

CC7

Judge me by the colour of my skin.

G

You can live a lie until you die.

E7A7

One thing you can't hide,

DG

Is when you're crippled in-side.

Instrumental

G

Take it Billy!

(Honky-Tonk Piano Solo)

GG7CC7

GGGE7

A7DG

Brid2

(Repeat BRIDGE 1)

E7Em

Well know you know,

That your cat has nine lives, babe.

A7D/A

Nine lives to itself,

G

You only got one,

GEm7

And a dog's life ain't fun.

GDG

Mamma take a look out-side.

4.

(Repeat VERSE 1)

GG7

You can shine your shoes and wear a suit,

CC7

You can comb your hair and look a quite cute.

G

You can hide your face behind a smile.

E7A7

One thing you can't hide,

DG

Is when you're crippled in-side.

Outro

E7A7

One thing you can't hide,

DG

Is when you're crippled in-side.

(Slow to 2/2 Tempo)

E7A7

One thing you can't hide,

DGG#9G9

Is when you're crippled in-side.

(End)

BACKGROUND

http://www.beatlesbible.com/people/john-lennon/albums/imagine/

COMMENTS

From Rolling Stone: "Crippled Inside", Imagine, 1971

Lennon followed the opening peace anthem on his second album with this grenade

wrapped in rockabilly rhythm and prairie-saloon piano, with a slinky country-boy

solo on dobro by George Harrison. The chorus 'One thing you can't hide, Is when you're crippled inside.'

may have been a slap at ex-bandmate Paul McCartney (who would get it full blast on Side Two, in

'How Do You Sleep?'). But when Lennon wrote in the second person, he often did it staring into a mirror."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/twenty-underappreciated-john-lennon-solo-songs-20101210