We were sitting 'round the table
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At the Tuesday poker game,
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Solvin' all the problems of the world
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Tryin' to draw an inside straight
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And Jimmy posed the question
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as he played a pair of Kings,
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"If you could be anyone in this whole world,
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Who would you be?"
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"Would you be Elvis, shaking up Memphis
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Making all the young girls scream?
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Would you make a speech that would change the world
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Like Martin Luther King?
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Go down in history like Abe Lincoln
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'Cause you set a country free?
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If you could be anyone in this whole world,
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Tell me who would you be?"
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Hank said, "I'd be a Cowboy,
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Someone like John Wayne."
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Donny said, "Hey Pilgrim,
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Blow that cigar smoke the other way."
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Said he'd make a million dollars
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Pitchin' in the Major Leagues.
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Then he stared straight into Paul's bloodshot eyes,
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And said, "Who would you be?"
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"Would you be John Lennon? Can you imagine
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Giving hope with just a song.
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Would you be the Babe, pointin' that bat
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Saying this one's goin' long?
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Maybe Moses, partin' the waters
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Saying Children follow me.
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If you could be anyone in this whole world,
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Tell me who would you be?"
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I knew those boys
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Would roll their eyes
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when they heard what I had to say.
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But I shuffled the cards
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And said, "Deuce's wild."
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And I told them anyways.
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"I'd be a father who had all the answers
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To every question my kids had.
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I'd earn every word on that coffee cup
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That said world's greatest dad.
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Be a perfect husband to that woman,
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Who means everything to me.
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If I could be anyone in this whole world
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That's who I'd be."
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Yeah, that's who I'd be.
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Who Would You Be
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| George Canyon |
