Chords for 200 Year Old Alcoholic-Makem & Clancy

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_ _ _ Oh, [G] it's never [C] too late to start living _
_ [F] Get out and have [G] some [C] fun
_ The [F] sun will be just as shiny [C] in the morning
As [F] the first [G] day the world begun _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Abm] This is a little song I got from my Uncle [Eb] Dick
_ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] He comes from Boone, North Carolina
With explosive beat
_ [C] _ _
He sent it up to me
He sent it up to [G] me one time on a cassette tape
_ And he's [N] the oldest man I know
Oh, he's older _ than me [G] Yeah
[Ab] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] And he [G] sent this to me on a cassette tape
I'll try and do it with the same kind of accent as he [C] does
_ [Em] It's all real funny
_ [E] _ _ [C] _ He called it his autobiography
[G] _ [C] _ _ Here's the [G] way she goes
[C] _ Good chorus to this, you can sing it if you feel like it _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ When I was eighty I started _ _ smoking _
_ Took [F] to drinking at eighty [C] _ -five
_ [F] At ninety I _ [C] started courting _ _
Thank God that I was [G] alive _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] Ninety-five saw me in business
_ _ [Fm] _
Determined [C] to rake in the piles _
[F] At a hundred I made my [G] first million
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Bm] Whoopee _
And I [F] [G] started living in style
Oh, _ _ _ _ _ it's _ _ [C] _ never too late to start living _ _ _
[F] To get out and have [G] some [C] fun
_ The [F] sun will be just as shiny [G] in [C] the morning
As the [Dm] first day [G] the world begun
Now you've got it and the next [C] time around next week you'll sing _ _ _
_ _ So _ _ _ _ I moved to a swinging _ penthouse
_ _ [F] Used fifties to light [C] my cigars
_ _ [F] _ Developed a taste for fine [G] _ [C] champagne _
[Cm] Drove fast Italian [G] cars _ _
_ But the doctor he'd give me [C] a warning
_ _ [F] And a lecture on right and [C] wrong
[G] _ [C] [F] If I didn't give up my [C] sinful ways
I couldn't live [G] very long
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_ _ _ Oh, _ _ _ [C] it's never too late to start living
_ _ [F] To get out and have [C] some fun
_ [F] The sun will be just as shiny in the [C] morning
[Dm] As the first day [G] the world begun _
_ _ _ _ It [C] gets kind [Gb] of sad [C] now
_ _ _ _ Now _ _ _ _ I'm a two hundred year [Gm] old _ [B] alcoholic
[C] _
_ _ And _ _ [F] the nicotine's [A] caught up [C] on me _
But [Dm] worst of [F] all in this _ [C] morning's mail
I've got [Gbm] a suit for [G] paternity _ _ _ _ _
Oh, _ _ [C] but I'm not really unhappy _ _ _
[F] Because maybe I'll have me [C] a son _
And [F] his mornings will be just [C] as shiny
_ As [Dm] the first [G] day the world [C] begun
[G] _ Oh, _ _ _ _ _ [C] it's never too late to start living _ _
[F] To get out and have [C] some fun _
_ [F] The sun will be just as shiny [C] in the morning
[F] As the first [G] day the world begun
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh, it's never too late to start living
_ _ [F] To get out and have [C] some fun
_ [F] The sun will be just as shiny [C] in the morning
[F] As the [G] first day the world [F] begun _
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