The Best Of All Possible Worlds chords by Roger Miller
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I was runnin' through
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the summer rain
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Tryin' to catch that evenin' train
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And kill that old familiar pain
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Weavin' through my tangled brain
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But when I tipped my bottle back
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I smacked into a cop I didn't see
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That policeman said, "Mr. Cool
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If you're ain't drunk then
you're a fool"
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I said, "Well, if that's against the law
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Then tell me why I never saw
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A man locked in that jail
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of yours
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That wouldn't just as lowdown
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poor as me"
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Well, that was when someone
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turned out the lights
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And I wound up in jail to spend the night
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And dream of all the wine and lonely girls
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In this best of all possible worlds
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Well, I woke up next morning
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Feelin' like my head was gone
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And like my thick old tongue
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Was lickin' somethin' sick and long
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And I told that man I'd sell
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my soul
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For somethin' wet and
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cold in that old cell
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Well, that kindly jailer just grinned at me
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All eaten up with sympathy
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Then he poured himself another beer
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And he came and whispered in my ear
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That booze was just a dime a bottle
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Boy, you couldn't even buy the smell
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I said, "I knew there was somethin'
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I liked bout this town
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But it takes more than that to bring me down,
down, down, down"
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But there's a lot of wine and lonely girls
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In this best of all possible worlds
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Well, they finally came and they told me
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They was a gonna set me free
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And that I'd be leavin' town
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If I knew what was good for me
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I said, "It's nice to learn
that everybody's
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So concerned about my health"
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I said, "I won't be leavin' no more
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Quicker than I fastly can
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'Cause I've enjoyed about
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As much of this as I can stand
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And I don't need this
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town of yours more
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Than I never needed nothin' else"
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'Cause there's still a lot of drinks
that I ain't drunk
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And there's lots of pretty thoughts
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that I ain't thought, oh yeah
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And Lord, there's still so many lonely girls
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In this best of all possible worlds
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Well, step right up to the wild [Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible] to the young
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Verse 50
Step back,
step back [Incomprehensible]
Outro 1
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The Best Of All Possible Worlds
Roger Miller
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