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OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME
by Billy Joe Shaver
recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker on its a good night for singin circa
1976

 I almost did this song way back on the Viva Terlingua album, but Billy
Joe never made it to Luckenbach.  It s just like an old five and dimer
to be a little bit late.  - JJW

G
Yea, well I spent a lifetime
G		          D
Just makin  up my mind to be,
D
More than the measure of
D			    G
What I thought others could see.
G
Good luck and those fast bucks
G		 G7	    C
Are too few, and too far between,
C           D
Those other Cadillac drivers
D			           G
And those old five and dimers like me.


You know, she stood beside me,
Tellin  me she would be something to lean on,
When everything ran out on me.
No fenced yards ain t hole cards
Like as not, never will be.
Any reason for rhymers
And those old five and dimers like me.

Now I ve searched for so long,
Now that I ve found that I believe
All that I do or say
Is all I ever will be.
Too far and too high and too deep
Ain t too much to be.
Yeah, too much just ain t enough
For those old five and dimers like me.
I guess an old five and dimer 
Is all I intended to be.