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