Old Five And Dimers Like Me by Jerry Jeff Walker, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Old Five And Dimers Like Me

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Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York, on 16 March 1942; died 23 October 2020) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for writing the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles".

During the late 1950s, Crosby was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones. The band traveled to Philadelphia to audition for Dick Clark's "American Bandstand", but were turned down. Members of the band found Dick Clark's

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Yeah, well I spent a lifetime
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Just makin' up my mind to be
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More than the measure of
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What I thought others could see
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Good luck and those fast bucks
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Are too few and too far between
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Those other Cadillac drivers
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And those old five and dimers like me

[Verse 2]
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You know, she stood beside me
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Tellin' me she would be
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Somethin' to lean on
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Everythin' ran out on me
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No fenced yards ain't hole cards
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Like as not, never will be
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Any reason for rhymers
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And those old five and dimers like me, alright

[Instrumental]
G# D# G# C# D# G#

[Verse 3]
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Now I've searched for so long
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Now that I've found that I believe
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All that I do or say
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Is all I ever will be

Too far and too high and too deep
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Ain't too much to be
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Yeah, too much just ain't enough
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For those old five and dimers like me
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I guess an old five and dimer
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Is all I intended to be, alright