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From: MarkHenjum@aol.com
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:05:05 -0400

CAREFUL MAN
Words and music by Jim Croce

I don't gamble, I don't fight
I don't be hangin' in the bars at hangin' in the bars at <A7>night
Yeah I used to be a used to be a <C#m>fighter
But now I am a now I am a <B7>wiser man

I don't drink much, I don't smoke
I don't be hardly mess around with no hardly mess around with no <A7>dope
Yeah I used to be a used to be a <C#m>problem
But now I am a now I am a <B7>careful man

CHORUS:
But if you 

CHORUS:
But if you <A7>used to want to see a commotion
You should have seen the man that I used to be
I was seen the man that I used to be
I was <A7>trouble in perpetual motion
Trouble with a capital Trouble with a capital <B7>"T"

Stayin' out late, havin' fun
And shot off every single shot in my every single shot in my <A7>gun
Yeah I used to be a used to be a <C#m>lover
But now I am an now I am an <B7>older man

(REPEAT CHORUS)

(REPEAT LAST VERSE, New last line:)
Yeah I used to be a terror but now I am a tired man