If I Died

Intro 
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If I died and I was dead 
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There’d be no need to fix my head 
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There’d be no need to go to work 
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Renew the tags or wear a shirt 
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I wouldn’t need nuthin to do 
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If it were me coulda been you 
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If I died and it were aught 
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I’d grow a tree and that would rot 
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And that would bloom sure enuff 
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It’s part of things 
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It’s part of stuff to everything 
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You’ve got to turn 
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You don’t deserve the things you earn 
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Interlude 
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When ya die they don’t know 
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If there’s a place you got to go 
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But hopefully there’s no chores 
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Just John Prine celestial doors 
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And good friends and fun times 
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Like the ones that fill up my mind 
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