The Best Of All Possible Worlds Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]I was run[E]nin' through

[Verse 2]
the summer rain
[E]Tryin' to catch that evenin' train

[Verse 3]
And [A]kill that old familiar pain

[Verse 4]
[A]Weavin' through my tangled brain

[Verse 5]
But [D]when I tipped my bottle back

[Verse 6]
[D]I smacked into a cop I didn't see
[G]

[Verse 7]
That [E]policeman said, "Mr. Cool

[Verse 8]
If [E]you're ain't drunk then
you're a fool"

[Verse 9]
I said, [A]"Well, if that's against the law

[Verse 10]
Then [A]tell me why I never saw

[Verse 11]
[D]A man locked in that jail

[Verse 12]
of yours
[D]That wouldn't just as lowdown
poor as [G]me"

[Verse 13]
Well, [G]that was when someone
turned out [Am]the lights

[Verse 14]
And [D]I wound up in jail to spend the night
[G]

[Verse 15]
And dream of all the wine and lonely [C]girls

[Verse 16]
In this [D]best of all possible [G]worlds

[Verse 17]
[G]
Well, I [E]woke up next morning

[Verse 18]
Feelin' like [E]my head was gone

[Verse 19]
And [A]like my thick old tongue

[Verse 20]
Was lickin' [A]somethin' sick and long

[Verse 21]
And I [D]told that man I'd sell

[Verse 22]
my soul
[D]For somethin' wet and
cold in that old [G]cell

[Verse 23]
[G]
Well, that [E]kindly jailer just grinned at me

[Verse 24]
[E]All eaten up with sympathy

[Verse 25]
Then he [A]poured himself another beer

[Verse 26]
And [A]he came and whispered in my ear

[Verse 27]
That [D]booze was just a dime a bottle

[Verse 28]
[D]Boy, you couldn't even buy the smell
[G]

[Verse 29]
I said, "I knew there was somethin'
I liked bout [Am]this town

[Verse 30]
But [D]it takes more than that to bring [G]me down,
down, down, down"

[Verse 31]
But [G]there's a lot of wine and lonely girls
[C]

[Verse 32]
In this [D]best of all possible [G]worlds
[Ab]

[Verse 33]
Well, they [F]finally came and they told me

[Verse 34]
They was a gonna set me free

[Verse 35]
And that [Bb]I'd be leavin' town

[Verse 36]
If I knew [Bb]what was good for me

[Verse 37]
I said, [Eb]"It's nice to learn
that everybody's

[Verse 38]
So [Eb]concerned about my [Ab]health"

[Verse 39]
[Ab]
I said, "I [F]won't be leavin' no more

[Verse 40]
Quicker [F]than I fastly can

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[Bb]'Cause I've enjoyed about

[Verse 42]
As much [Bb]of this as I can stand

[Verse 43]
And [Eb]I don't need this

[Verse 44]
town of yours more
[Eb]Than I never needed nothin' else"
[Ab]

[Verse 45]
'Cause there's still a lot of drinks
that I ain't drunk
[Bb][Bbm]

[Verse 46]
And there's [Eb]lots of pretty thoughts
that I [Ab]ain't thought, oh yeah

[Verse 47]
And [Ab]Lord, there's still so many lonely [Db]girls

[Verse 48]
In this [Eb]best of all possible [Ab]worlds

[Verse 49]
Well, [F]step right up to the wild [Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible] to the young
[Bb]

[Verse 50]
Step back,
step back [Incomprehensible]

[Outro 1]
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