I Would Not Be Here chords by John Hartford

Intro:
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I would not be here if I hadn't been there
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And I wouldn't been there if I hadn't just turned
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On Wednesday the third in the late afternoon
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Got to talking with George who works out in the back
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And only because he was getting off early
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To go see a man at a Baker Street bookstore
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With a rare first edition of "Steamboats and Cotton"
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A book he would never have sought in the first place
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Had he not been inspired
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By a fifth grade replacement schoolteacher in Kirkwood
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Who was picked just at random
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By some man on a school board who couldn't care less
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And she wouldn't been working
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If not for her husband
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Who moved two months prior to work in the office
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Of a man he had met
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While he served in the army
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And only because they were in the same barracks
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An accident caused by a poorly made roster
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Mixed up on the desk of a Sargent from Denver
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Who wouldn't be in but for being in back
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In the car he was riding before he enlisted that hit a cement truck
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And killed both his buddies
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But a back seat flew up there and spared him from dying
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And only because of the fault of a workman
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Who forgot to turn screws on a line up in Detroit
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Cause he hollered at Sam who was hateful that morning
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Hungover from drinking alone at a tavern
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Because of a woman he wished he'd not married
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He met long ago at a Jewish bar mitzvah
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For the son of a man who had moved there from Jersey
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Who managed a drugstore that sold the prescription
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That cured up the illness he caught way last summer
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He wouldn't have caught except for some kid
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All contagious from fever who sat in his lap
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Was the son of a man who sold him insurance
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He met at a...