When I Get to Heaven Chords by John Prine

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_ _ _ _ When I get to heaven, I'm gonna shake God's hand,
thanking for more blessings than one man can stand.
Then I'm gonna get a guitar [E] and start a rock and roll band,
check into a swell hotel, ain't that afterlife grand?
And then [A] I'm gonna get a cocktail, vodka [D] and ginger ale.
Yeah, I'm gonna [G] smoke a cigarette that's nine [D] miles long.
I'm gonna kiss [A] that pretty girl [D] on the tip of the world,
[G] cause this old [A] man is going [D] to town.
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Then as God is my witness, I'm getting [G] back into show business. _
I'm gonna [A] open up a nightclub called the Tree of Forgiveness
and forgive everybody who ever done [D] me any harm.
_ _ Well, I might even invite a few choice critics,
_ [F#m] _ [G] those syphilitic parasitics, _ [A] buy my parasmitics
and smother them with [D] my charm.
_ [Bm] _ [A] Cause then I'm gonna get a cocktail, _ vodka and [D] ginger ale.
Yeah, I'm gonna smoke [G] a cigarette that's nine [D] miles long.
I'm [A] gonna kiss that pretty girl _ [D] on the tip of the world.
_ [G] Yeah, this old man [A] is going [D] to town.
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_ [D] _ _ _ Yeah, [G] _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ [D] _ when I get to heaven, [G] I'm gonna take that wristwatch off [B] my arm.
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What are you gonna do with time after [D] you bought the farm? _ _
And then I'm gonna go find my mom and dad.
[G] And good old brother Doug, [A]
well I bet him and cousin Jackie are still [D] cutting up a rug.
I wanna see all my mama's [G] sisters, cause that's where all the love starts.
[A] I miss them all like crazy, _ [D] bless her little hearts.
_ And I always will remember [G] these words my daddy said.
_ He said, [A] buddy, when you're dead, you're a dead peckerhead. _ _ _ _
I hope to prove him wrong, that is, _ [D] when I get to heaven.
_ [A] Cause I'm gonna have a cocktail, vodka [D] and ginger ale.
Yeah, I'm gonna [G] smoke a cigarette that's nine [D] miles long.
I'm gonna kiss [A] that pretty girl [D] on the tip of the world.
[G] Yeah, this old [A] man is going [D] to town.
_ _ [G] Yeah, this old [A] man is going [D] to town.
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