Teddy Bear Song chords by Bobby G. Rice

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Verse 1
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B 
G 
B 
F# 
I Wish
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I Had Button Eyes
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And A Red -Tailed Nose
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Shaggy Cotton Skin
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And Just One Set Of Clothes
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Sittin' On  A Shelf
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In A Loaded Cardboard Store
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C# 
With no dreams   to dream
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and nothing to be sorry for
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F# 
B 
I  wish I was a teddy bear
Not living or learning,
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nor going nowhere
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F# 
B 
I  wish I was a teddy bear
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F# 
And  I'm wishin' that I
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G 
hadn't fallen in love with you
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I wish I had a wooden heart
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C 
and a sawdust mind
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C 
C# 
Then your memory wouldn't
come around
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F# 
hurtin' all the time
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F# 
I'd have a sold -out smile
B 
and a paper twinkle in my eye
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And I never would have ever had
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F# 
B 
to learn how to cry
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B 
I wish I was a   teddy bear
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C# 
Not livin' or lov in'
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F# 
nor goin' nowhere
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B 
I wish I was a teddy bear
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C# 
And I wish I never hadn't fallen in
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Ab 
Db 
Ab 
love with you
I wish I had a string you could pull
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Db 
to make me say
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My name is Teddy,
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I ain't in love today
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G 
Ab 
Eb 
Ab 
Then I'd know every time I   spoke
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Ab 
Db 
C 
the words were right
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And no one would know
Ab 
the mess I've made in my life
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Ab 
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Ab 
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C 
I wish I was a teddy bear
Eb 
G 
Not living on the land, nor going nowhere
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C 
I wish I was a teddy bear
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C 
G 
And I'm wishin' that I hadn't
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Eb 
Ab 
fallen in love with you