Best Of All Possible Worlds Chords

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[Verse 1]
[F]I was run[D]ning through
the summer rain,
trying to catch the evening train
To [G]kill that old familiar pain,
weaving through my tangled brain
I [C]tipped my bottle back,
and I smacked into a cop I didn't [F]see
That po[D]lice man said, Mr. Cool,
if you ain't drunk then you're a fool
I [G]said, if that's against the law,
then tell me why
I never saw a [C]man locked
in that jail of yours
Who wasn't just as
low -down poor as [F]me
Well, that's just [G]when someone
turned out the [Bb]lights
And [C]I wound up in jail to spend the n[F]ight
In a dream of all the wine
and lonely [Bb]girls[G]
In this [C]best of all possible [F]worlds
Well [D]I woke up next morning
feeling like my head was gone
And [G]like my thick old tongue
was licking something sick and wrong
And [C]I told that man I'd sell my soul
for something wet and cold as I would [F]sell
That [D]kindly jailer grinned at me
and he ate me up with sympathy
And [G]poured himself another beer
and came and whispered in my ear
If [C]booze was just a dime a bottle,
boy, you couldn't even buy the [F]smell
So to me, there was [C]something
I [G]liked about this [Bb]town
But [C]it takes more than that
to bring me [F]down, down, down
Cause there's still a lot of wine
and lonely [Bb]girls[G]
In this [C]best of all possible [F]worlds[G]
They fi[E]nally came and told me
they was gonna set me free
And [A]I'd be leaving town
if I knew what was good for me
I [D]said it's nice to learn
that everybody's so
concerned about my [G]health
[F]I s[E]aid I won't be leaving
no more quicker than I can
Because [A]I've enjoyed about as
much of this as I can stand
And [D]I don't need this town of yours
more than I never needed
nothing [G]else
There's still a lot of [A]drinks
that [G]I ain't d[A]runk
[C]And lot[D]s of pretty thoughts
that I ain't [G]thunk
And there's still so many lonely, lonely [C]girls
[G]In [A]this bes[D]t of all possible wor[G]lds