A Great Day to Be Alive
Travis Tritt

 Submitted By Tiny man
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 I Got Rice cooking in the microwave got a three day beard I don't Plan to shave and it?s a
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Goofy thing but I just gotta say hey I?m doing Alright. Yeah I think Ill make me some                                                               C            G     D                          Em       C         G            D           Em
Homemade soup feelin pretty Good and that?s the truth its____ neither drink nor drug
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Induced no I?m just Doin alright


[Chorus]
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And Its a great day to be alive I know the suns still shinin when I
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Close my eyes there?s some hard times in the neighborhood but why can't
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Every day be just this good? _________________________



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Its been 15 years since I left home___ said good luck to every seed I'd sown, ____ give it my
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Best and Then I left it alone Ohhh I hope their doing alright. Now I look in the mirror and
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What do I See?  A lone wolf they?re strain back at me, ____long in the tooth but harmless as
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Can be, lord I Guess he?s Doin alright


[Chorus]
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And Its a great day to be alive I know the suns still shinin when I
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Close my eyes there?s some hard times in the neighborhood but why can't
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Every day be just this good? ______


[Bridge 1]
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Sometimes it?s lonely, sometimes its only me and the shadows that fill
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This room, sometimes I?m fallin desperately callin howlin at the moon______
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Ahhhwwoooooo!_______________   Ahhhwwoooooo! ____________
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___Yeah __________________________________________________


[Bridge 2]
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Well I might go get me a new tattoo or take my old Harley for a three
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Day cruise might even grow me a fu man Chu, ohh Aww!


[Chorus]
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And Its a great day to be alive I know the suns still shinin when I
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Close my eyes there?s some hard times in the neighborhood but why can't
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Every day be just this good?

[Chorus]
D                         Em                   Am      Em
And Its a great day to be alive I know the suns still shinin when I
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Close my eyes there?s some hard times in the neighborhood but why can't
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Every day be just this good? ______


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