Best Imitation Of Myself

              C                   C/B
I feel like a quote out of context,
    Am               G        F               G           Am D
Withholding the rest so I can be for you what you wanna see.
          C                    C/B     Am
I got the gesture and sounds,  got the timing down
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It's uncanny, yeah, you'd think it was me. Do you think I should
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Take a class to lose my southern accent?
    F         G              F            G
Did I make me up or make the face till it stuck
         F       G           C
I do the best imitation of myself.

[Verse 2]

    C                      C/B    Am              G
The "problem with you" speech you gave me was fine
            F         G       Am          D
I liked the theories about my little stage.
      C                  C/B     Am
And I swore I was listening till I started drifting
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Around the part about me acting my age.   Now if it's
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All the same...  I've people to entertain.
           F          G                F            G
You know I'll juggle one-handed,  do some magic tricks and
    F       G         C
The best imitation of myself.

[Bridge]

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Maybe I'm thinking myself in a hole...
E7    Am
Wondering...
      F         Am
Who I am when I oughta know
           F      Am         E7
Straighten up now time to go fool somebody else...
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Fool somebody else.

[Verse 3]

                 C              C/B    Am         G
Last night I was east with them... and west within...
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Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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But I can't help it with you,  the good and bad comes through
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Don't want you hanging out with no-one but me.
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Now that it's all the same... it comes from the same place.
          F                G
And if my mind's somewhere else
             F       G
You won't be able to tell
         F       G           C
I do the best imitation of myself

[Outro]

           F        G
Yes it's uncanny to see
             F            G
You'd really think it was me.
         F       G      Am     D
The best imitation of myself...
         F       G           D
I do the best imitation of myself.