Who Would You Be

We were sitting around the table

At the Tuesday poker game

Solving all the problems of the world

Trying 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 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 million dollars

Pitching 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 pointing that bat saying this one's going long?

Maybe Moses, parting the waters saying children follow me

If you could be anyone in this whole world

Tell me who would you be?

Well I knew those boys would roll their eyes

When they heard what I had to say

But I shuffled the cards and said, deuces wild

And I told them anyway

I'd be a father who had all the answers

To every question my kids had

I'd learn every word on that coffee cup that said, word'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