Slim Dusty – What I Am (Guitar)

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I've been through all the stages of a wise man and a fool

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More often being the latter, it is true

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But I've been wise enough to know the good friends that I've had

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And to hurt them was the doin' of a fool

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If I seem to say the wrong thing and to do the wrong thing too

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When it should have been so easy to do right

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Then I've tried to make amends for it and live with what I am

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But all the ghosts from out the past are walkin' here tonight.

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And I'm tryin' to live with what I am

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Just a plain talkin',  hard workin',  ordinary man

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I may never be a leader in the town or on the land

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But I'll fall, or I'll stand by what I am

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Perhaps I stayed away too long from folks and homesweet home

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And maybe I was careless with a pen

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Perhaps I sang and drank all night and quarrelled here and there

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But after all I was much younger then

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And if you can count true friends upon the fingers of one hand

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You're a lucky man they say and mate its true

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If your wife and kids still love ya and seem proud of their old man

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Then theres nothing past or present in your world should bother you

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And I'm glad that I am what I am

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Just a plain talkin',  hard workin',  ordinary man

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I may never be a leader in the town or on the land

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But I'll fall, or I'll stand by what I am

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So I'm glad that I am what I am

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Just a plain talkin',  hard workin',  ordinary man

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I may never be a leader in the town or on the land

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But I'll fall, or I'll stand, by what I am.