Heavyweight Champion Of The World(Keyboard chords)

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Now that she's older                         
As the embers of romance fade to mortgages and leccy bills      
Been comfortable and that        
Nobody told her that she'd ever reach the stage                                    
Where her husband bores or her or she lies about her age 

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He's compromising              
At least he's got a job for life     
Get born, get school, get job, get car    
Pay tax and find a wife                    
And on that note the end can't come too soon 
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If you're not living on the edge you take up too much room 

  
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I could've been a contender 
I could've been a someone 
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Caught up in the rat race 
And feeling like a no one 
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Could've been me in the papers     
With the money and the girls 
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I could've been the heavyweight champion of the world 

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Verse 
    
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At school he used to dream about being Bruce Lee       
But the need for chops in the Manor Top     
Ain't all that great you see 
And so he gave up 
On his black belt and first Dan 
As near as he got to China 
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Was a week in Camber sands 


            
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I could've been a contender 
I could've been a someone 
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Caught up in the rat race 
And feeling like a no one 
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Could've been me in the papers     
With the money and the girls 
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I could've been the heavyweight champion of the world 

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I could've been a contender 
I could've been a someone 
E 
Caught up in the rat race 
And feeling like a no one 
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Could've been me in the papers     
With the money and the girls 
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I could've been the heavyweight champion of the world 


Bridge 

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Verse 

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It's boring, it's boring    
It might put you to sleep     
As the same old routine repeated week after week 
And you work harder, work harder 
You're told that you must 
And you must earn a living 
You must earn a crust 


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And be like everybody else 
         
Be like everybody else 
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Be like everybody else 
              
Just be like everybody else 
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Be like everybody else 
         
Be like everybody else 
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Be like everybody else 
              
Just be like everybody else 
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Be like everybody else 
              
Just be like everybody else 
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Be like everybody else 
              
Just be like everybody else 
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Be like everybody else 
              
Just be like everybody else 
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Be like everybody else 
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I'm not like everybody else 


 
            
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I could've been a contender 
I could've been a someone 
E 
Caught up in the rat race 
And feeling like a no one 
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Could've been me in the papers     
With the money and the girls 
           E                            
I could've been the heavyweight champion of the world 

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I could've been a contender 
I could've been a someone 
E 
Caught up in the rat race 
And feeling like a no one 
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Could've been me in the papers     
With the money and the girls 
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I could've been the heavyweight champion of the world

	        

Written by Ed Cosens