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