Excuses chords by The Kingsmen

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


Intro:
| C     | C     | C     | C     | (x2)


Chorus:
 C    C       C        G
Excuses, excuses, you'll hear them every day,
    G       G        G        C
now the Devil he'll supply them, if the church you stay away.
   C       C       C7        F
When people come to know the Lord, the Devil always loses,
    F        C          G       C      C
so, to keep them folks away from church, he offers them excuses.

Verse 1:
    C        C       C        G
In the summer it's too hot and in the winter it's too cold,
    G          G               G          C
in the springtime when the weather's just right, you find some place else to go.
      C           C            C7       F
Well, it's up to the mountains or down to the beach or to visit some old friend or
   F           C               G               C      C
just stay home and kinda relax and hope that some of the kin folks will start dropping in.

Verse 2:
    C        C       C        G
Well, a headache Sunday morning and a backache Sunday night,
    G        G        G        C
but by worktime Monday morning, you're feeling quite alright.
         C       C     C7        F
While one of the children has a cold, "Pneumonia, do you suppose?"
    F          C         G          C   C
Why the whole family had to stay home, just to blow that poor kid's nose?

Chorus:
 C    C       C        G
Excuses, excuses, you'll hear them every day,
    G       G        G        C
now the Devil he'll supply them, if the church you stay away.
   C       C       C7        F
When people come to know the Lord, the Devil always loses,
    F        C          G       C      C
so, to keep them folks away from church, he offers them excuses.

Verse 3:
     C         C     C       G
Well, the preacher he's too young and, maybe he's too old,
   G          G        G         C
those sermons they're not hard enough, sometimes they're too bold.
  C         C        C7        F
His voice is much too quiet-like, sometimes he gets too loud,
  F         C     G         C      C
he needs to have more dignity or else he's way too proud.

Verse 4:
     C          C     C         G
Well, the sermons they're too long and, maybe they're too short,
  G          G          G          C
he ought to preach the word with dignity instead of "stomp and snort."
      C            C    C7          F
Well, that preacher we've got must be "the world's most stuck up man."
   F           C              G          C    C
Well, one of the lady's told me the other day, "Well, he didn't even shake my hand."

End-Chorus:
 C    C       C        G
Excuses, excuses, you'll hear them every day,
    G       G        G        C
now the Devil he'll supply them, if the church you stay away.
   C       C       C7        F
When people come to know the Lord, the Devil always loses,
    F        C          G       C    C
so, to keep them folks away from church, he offers them excuses.
    F        C          G       C    C     C    C
So, to keep them folks away from church, he offers them excuses.