Key: E major
Verse 1
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Good times
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and bum times,
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Em
I've seen them all,
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G
and my dear, I'm still here.
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Plush velvet sometimes,
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sometimes just pretzels and beer,
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I've stopped the daylilies
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F#
A
Em
Strummed ukuleles and
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sung the blues
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Seen all my dreams disappear
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D
But I'm here I've slept in shanties
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Em
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Guest of the WPA
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But I'm here I danced in miscandies,
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three bucks a night was the pay.
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But I'm here.
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with the best.
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did their rest.
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In the Depression was
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nowhere near.
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D
I met a big financier, and I'm here
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Dm
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I've been through Gandy,
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Windsor,
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an d I'm here
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Amos and Andy,
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Mahjong and platinum hair,
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B
and I'm here Ž
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I got through Amy's
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Irish Rose
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Ž
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Five -D on Baby's major foes Ž
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Had hippie, jeebies, boobies,
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Ž Ž Ž
Em
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I lived through Brenda, Frasier Ž
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And I'm here Ž
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I've gotten through Herbert
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and J. Edgar Hoover,
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F#m
Gee, that was fun and a hash.
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When you've been through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover,
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Em
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Anything else is a lie.
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I've been through Reno,
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I've been through Beverly Hills,
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an d I'm here.
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Reefers and vino, rescuers, religion and pills,
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and I'm here.
Em
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Been called a pinko, call me too,
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gone through it stinko, by my pool,
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I should have gone
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that seems clear,
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still someone says she's sincere,
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so I'm here. Ž Ž
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Black sable one day nex
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t day it goes in a hawk
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Ž I'm here Ž
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Talk billing Monday
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Tuesday you're touring in stock
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But I'm here Ž
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First you're another
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slow -eyed man
Ž Ž
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Then someone's mother
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Then you career from career
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to career
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I'm almost through my memoirs
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And I'm here
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I've gotten through
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Hey lady, are you who's this?
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Wow, what a looker you were
Or better yet,
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sorry I thought you were
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whose is whatever
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Em
happened to her?
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Fm
Good times and fun times
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Fm
I've seen them all
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Ab
And my dear, I'm still here
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Eb
Flushed velvet sometimes,
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sometimes just pretzels and beer
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And I'm here
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I run the Gammon Agency
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Preacher s and dammits say I'll be
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I got through all of last year
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Gm
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An d I'm here
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And I'm here, not to stay, not to die!
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