Verse 1
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An old man turned ninety eight
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He won the lottery and died the next day.
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It’s a black fly in your chardonnay,
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It’ a death row pardon 2 minutes too late!
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Isn’t it Ironic? Don’t you think?
Chorus
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It’s like rain___ on your wedding day,
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It’s a free ride___ when you’ve already paid,
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It’s the good advice___ that you just didn’t take,
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and who would of thought, it figures?
Verse 2
(same chords as the first)
Mister play-it-safe was afraid to fly,
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good__bye,
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight,
And as the plane crashed down he thought, ‘well isn’t this nice?’,
Isn’t it Ironic? don’t you think?
Chorus
Bridge:
Well life has a funny way of sneakin’ up
On you when you think everything’s okay and
everything’s going ri__ght,
and yeah well, life has funny way of helping you out
when everyhthing blows up in your fa__ce,
Verse 3
(same chords as as the first, just a couple more bars)
Outro:
And you know well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you,
Life has a funny way-funny way, of helping you out,
helping you o__ut
