Just A Paycheck Away chords by Mark Cutler

SimplifiedAm · D · G · Dm

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Well I
get up every morning
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cause I got no choice
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I gotta sang for my supper
Dm 
I ain't got no voice
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Dm 
Got a monkey on my back,
Am 
crackin' the whip
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D 
I got a face in my face, I'm givin' it a lip
Am 
I get off the train at the end of the line
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Homeless man askin' for a
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nickel and a dime
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Someday I feel that it might be me
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Dm 
I'm just a paycheck away from livin'
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Dm 
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on the street
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There's a spare change
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paperboard by the subway sign
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Next  to ambulance
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D 
and she's marking off her time
Better days are coming,
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someone say to me
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Good coming, bad coming,
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D 
coming after me
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I know what it's like to cheat into life
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D 
I know what it's like to make my mama cry
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I know what it's like to go without sleep
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I'm just a paycheck away from livin' on the street,
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D 
Am 
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D 
yeah
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G 
D 
Well, I worry about the bomb,
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I worry about the kid
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Worry about every wrong
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D 
thing I ever did
Worry about land,
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about a set up in the past
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Look at all the time
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that's gone by so fast
Am 
You're gonna get old before
you get young
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Before you say a curse
D 
and bled about your tongue
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You gotta take the bitter,
you gotta take the sweet
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I'm just a paycheck away
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from living on the street
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Am 
I'm just a paycheck away
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Dm 
from living on the street
Am 
I'm just a day trip away from
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D 
livin' on the street,
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G 
D 
yeah
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G 
D 
Am 
D 
you