I'm A Do It Yourself Man chords by Paul Anka
Verse 1
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Till a few years ago
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My one claim to fame
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Was the fact that my name
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rhymed with Sanka
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But after thinking it through
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I said this won't do
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So I'll make something of the name Anka.
I thought about all different
kinds of careers.
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I wor ried until I was green
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Now, by then,
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I was getting along in my years.
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True. I must have been pushing 16.
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But I'm happy to say, one wonderful day,
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I was fiddling around my piano.
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That was my lucky day.
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Lady Luck smiled my way.
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But the lady's real
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name was Diana.
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I'm so young and you're so old.
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This, my darling, I've been told.
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I don't care just what they say,
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cause forever I will pray
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You and I will be as free
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as the birds up in the trees
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Oh, please stay by me,
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Diana
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What a feeling to be told
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A million Dianas had just been sold
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What a thrill, the day it made
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Number one on the hit parade
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Oh, please stay by me,
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Thank you.
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I sure can thank my lucky
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stars above
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Because I love what I'm doing
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And I'm doing what I love
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Well, I'm a do -it -yourself
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type song man
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I'm a do -it -yourself type guy
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I confess that I'm having
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myself a time
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Singing my own music and rhyme
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Well, I'm a think -for
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A
-yourself type song man
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I'm a write -it -yourself type guy
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I'm thankful I was born with
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a mu sical knack
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I'm thankful and I'm grateful
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Cause it's great to look back
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On all the songs I wrote
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and then put down a shellac
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Now if you could think back
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Let's say, all the way back to 1959,
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you just might recollect these
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melodies of mine.
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And by the way, once again
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I kind of got the feeling that I was
getting much older,
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romantically well, very much bolder.
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Put your head on my shoulder
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Hold me in your arms, baby
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Won't you squeeze me once, show me
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That you love me too
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Ooh, put your lips next to mine,
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dear
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Won't you kiss me once,
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baby
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Just a kiss goodnight, tell me
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Tell me that you love
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me too
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You are my destiny
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You are what you are to me
You're more than life to me
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That's what you are
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I'm just a lonely boy.
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I'm lonely and blue.
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I'm all alone.
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I've got nothing to do.
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I've got everything you could think of.
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But all I want is someone
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to love.
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But the lowest kind of feeling
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that any one could know
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is when a lonely boy seizes one
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And on they go
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Cos when she says goodbye
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When she says goodbye
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It's time to cry
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When somebody needs you,
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that's the time to cry
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When you know you are lonely,
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you're not
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The one and only who will cry
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Happiness is what I love
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Loneliness, that's why I cry
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For you have made my heart a slave
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And now it's up to you
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When somebody leaves you,
that's the time to cry
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When you know you are lonely
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You're not the one and only
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Who will cry?
Thank you very much.
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But why should I be crying
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or feel blue?
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because I love what I'm doing
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just standing here
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singing these songs for you
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yes this do -it -yourself type song
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man he's a happy good lucky Joe
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I confess I've been lucky
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with June and Moon
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but it's you who really have called the tune
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So this do -it -yourself type song, man,
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only hopes that you liked his show.
I hope that I can sing for you
five years from today,
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And I'll be in my twenties
with my hair turning gray.
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Though I'll be old and weary,
still I'll cheerfully say,
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Thanks for helping my
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career get underway.
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Yes, thanks to you,
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hanged us away
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Thank you very much.
I'm A Do It Yourself Man
Paul Anka
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