Key: B major•
Verse 1
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If I had a lot of money
I'd move to another country
I'd disappear, not tell a soul,
I'd change my name
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Or maybe I'd go back to school
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And I could do it cause I'd
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have a lot of money
Here I am holding on to
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Sitting in my apple tree
tremble under me
Verse 2
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The jig is up, it's all been played
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The well is dry, the bed's been made
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The jig is up, the jig is up
Verse 3
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And I don't know how to swim
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Or I could find religion
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Go on some kind of mission
Feed the poor,
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and then I would go to heaven
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If I believed in heaven
Verse 4
Verse 5
the song's been sung
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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Well I can't really disappear
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Cause I don't have a lot
of money
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And I don't really think I want to
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Go back to school
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But maybe I'm just in a bad mood
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And I need to change my attitude
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I'll believe in heaven
Verse 7
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holding on to childhood's dream
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Climbing down the apple tree
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The jig is up
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Verse 8
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The jig is up, yes it's been tough
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It's off to work let's start the car
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We'll turn it over in its grave
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And start again its soul to save
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The jig is up but so what
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The jig is up, the point's been made
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The story needs another twist
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Bm
And I have had enough of this
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E G#m C#m A...
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