Who Would You Be Lyrics

Who Would You Be lyrics

We were sitting 'round the table

At the Tuesday poker game,

Solvin' all the problems of the world

Tryin' to draw an inside straight

And Jimmy posed the question

as he played a pair of Kings,

"If you could be anyone in this whole world,

Who would you be?"



"Would you be Elvis, shaking up Memphis

Making all the young girls scream?

Would you make a speech that would change the world

Like Martin Luther King?

Go down in history like Abe Lincoln

'Cause you set a country free?

If you could be anyone in this whole world,

Tell me who would you be?"



Hank said, "I'd be a Cowboy,

Someone like John Wayne."

Johnny said, "Hey Pilgrim,

Blow that cigar smoke the other way."

Said he'd make a million dollars

Pitchin' in the Major Leagues.

Then he stared straight into Paul's bloodshot eyes,

And said, "Who would you be?"



"Would you be John Lennon? Can you imagine

Giving hope with just a song.

Would you be the Babe, pointin' that bat

Saying this one's goin' long?

Maybe Moses, partin' the waters

Saying Children follow me.

If you could be anyone in this whole world,

Tell me who would you be?"



I knew those boys 

Would roll their eyes

when they heard what I had to say.

But I shuffled the cards 

And said, "Deuce's wild."

And I told them anyways.



"I'd be a father who had all the answers 

To every question my kids had.

I'd earn every word on that coffee cup 

That said world's greatest dad.

Be a perfect husband to that woman, 

Who means everything to me.

If I could be anyone in this whole world

That's who I'd be."



Yeah, that's who I'd be.