I Wish I Had A Dollar

Uncle Kracker

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Intro:     e-------------------3-----     h-------------------3-----     G----0--------------4-----     D---2-2---3----2----5-----     A--3-----1----0-----5-----     E-----------------3-3----- Chorus I wish I had a dollar for all the times somebody told me Everything’s gonna be  alright I wish I had a dollar for all the times somebody told me Everything’s gonna be  alright I’ve been lost in Boston Austin Texas is always sweet I stumbled around that Texas town but I never left Sixth Street You know it’s always hard to keep my feet from tryin’ to run away And it seems I spent a lifetime tryin’ to make everything ok I wanna go down to see her she’s my little queen I wanna go down to tell her she means the world to me I wish I was down to watch her play that tambourine She always brought a smile to me                    D  Dsus- D I’d do anything Chorus I wish I had a dollar for all the times somebody told me Everything’s gonna be  alright I wish sometimes that I could say she never told me so And I’d walk a million miles on down the same old broken road Now you can always reap just what you sew I know that’s true And I pray some day that I wake and my poor feet won’t fit these shoes I wanna go down to see her she’s my little queen I wanna go down to tell her she means the world to me I wish I was down to watch her play that tambourine She always brought a smile to me                    D  Dsus- D I’d do anything Chorus I wish I had a dollar for all the times somebody told me Everything’s gonna be  alright If I listen closely I can hear it oh so clear Like a south bound train like fallin’ rain like a whisper in my ear Everything I’d like to hear I don’t hear much no more But I know someday that you’ll come my way and you’ll walk right thru that door I wanna go down to see her she’s my little queen I wanna go down to tell her she means the world to me I wish I was down to watch her play that tambourine She always brought a smile to me                    D  Dsus- D I’d do anything Chorus I wish I had a dollar for all the times somebody told me Everything’s gonna be  alright I wish I had a dollar for all the times somebody told me Everything’s gonna be  alright (fade)     e-------------------3-----     h-------------------3-----     G----0--------------4-----     D---2-2---3----2----5-----     A--3-----1----0-----5-----     E----------------- -3-----

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