Jobs I Had Before I Got Rich And Famous chords by Walter Martin

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I'm  (C major) rowing along,
saving up for a guitar
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When  (F major) I was fifteen  (C major) and long and lean
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And  (F major) just like that  (C major) grass boy
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I was green  (F major)  (C major) 
Delivering roses in Washington D .C.
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Go (F major) ing off to col (C major) lege so I had to save up
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But  (F major) de livering roses  (C major) really sucks
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Sweating all summer in a  (F major) slimy tux
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 (C major) But  (F major) at least I made  (C major) a  couple  (F major) 
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buck (C major) s   (F major)  (C major)  (G major)  (C major) 
Freshman in college
I was delivering pizza
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But  (F major) to deliver one  (C major) pile,
a half an hour round trip
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And  (F major) college kids,  (C major) man, they  (G major) don't  (C major) tip
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And  (F major) so I  (C major) quit, and  (F major) it was their loss
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 (C major) Cause  (F major) I was the only driver (C major) ,
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not  (F major) stealing from the boss
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 (C major) And  (F major) siphoning  (C major) gas from stu
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 (F major) dents' cars  (C major)  (F major)  (C major) 
Metropolitan Museum,
the telephone switchboard,
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when a caller  (F major) would ask  (C major) for Philippe de Montebello,
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I'd  (F major) transfer to  (C major) my apartment
where an unsuspecting fellow,
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my  (F major) roommate Stu (C major) art, so sound  (F major) asleep,
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 (C major) But  (F major) answer the phone when he
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heard the  (C major) beep
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And pretty quick  (F major) they'd realize
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that he wasn't Philippe  (C major) 
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 (F major) Whistling  (G major)  (C major) 
Information counter
at the Cloisters Museum
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And  (F major) one day  (C major) Billy Joel  (F major) walks  (C major) in
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I  (F major) take a  (C major) long,  (F major) long look at  (C major) him
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A  (F major) dignified, old music man
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 (C major) And  (F major) that's when I devised
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my  (C major) plan  (F major)  (G major)  (C major) 
And that little plan has
brought me here
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When the spotlight  (F major) shines
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 (G major) an d the people all cheer
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 (F major) An d the pretty girls  (G major) flock from
far and near
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 (C major) To touch  (F major) my hands  (C major) an d hear  (F major) my songs
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 (C major) And  (F major) buy my t  (C major) -shirts and  (F major) sing  (C major) along
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God  (F major) damn, this  (C major) sure beats
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 (G major) mowing lawn (C major) s   (F major)  (C major)  (G major) 