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The Chance Tab

by Julie Roberts


INTRO:      2x


VERSE 1:

                      
I found a book that my mama kept
                       
Filled with secrets she hid
                                        
And in a dusty old attic, one mornin' I read
               
About a woman I never met
                      
Who had dreams just like mine
                                             
With every page I turned, the words came alive


CHORUS:
                                    
Wish I could roll out of town like a runaway train
                         
I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane 
                                                          
I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance
                              
If I just had the chance


VERSE 2:

                   
A tear fell on that faded page
                      
Cause this was somebody else
                                           
Not the Mama I knew who never thought of herself
                        
But the times, they were different then
                       
And lines just didn't get crossed
                                                     
And these words that she wrote, they somehow got lost


CHORUS:
                                    
Wish I could roll out of town like a runaway train
                         
I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane 
                                                          
I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance
                                           
If I just had the chance


VERSE 3:

                   
The chance that she never had
                       
Is now the gift that is mine
                                                 
And out here on this road, I'm makin' up for lost time
             
Yeah, I am my mother's child
                 
And tonight in this car
                                                        
I got her words in my suitcase and her dreams in my heart

CHORUS:
                            
As I roll out of town like a runaway train
                         
I'll do as I dare, let them call me insane 
                                                          
I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance
                           
While I still have the chance
                                                          
I'll never sit on the sidelines of life, I'll dance every dance
                                    
While I still have the chance