Old Five And Dimers Like Me

	  		
C                                          G7 
I've spent a lifetime making up my mind to be 
                                                   C 
More than the measure of what thought others could see 
                                                 F 
Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few between 
        G7                                           C 
There's Cadillac buyers and old five and dimers like me 
  
                                              G7 
She stood beside me letting me know she would be 
                                                C 
Something to lean on when everything ran out on me 
                                                         F 
Fenced yards ain't hole cards and like as not never will be 
    G7                                               C 
The reasons for rhymers and old five and dimers like me 
  
                                            G7 
It's taken me so long but now that I know I believe 
                                             C 
All that I do or say is all that I ever will be 
                                                    F 
Too far and too high and too deep ain't too much to see 
G7                                                 C 
Too much ain't enough for old five and dimers like me 
  
G7                                          C 
An old five and dimer was all I intended to be 
  
Spoken: 
  
You know country people don't shine their boots very often 
G7                                 C 
They don't shine other folks boots either