By Gene Ruskin
By: Mary Hopkins
Key: Am

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Once up-on a time there was a tav-ern
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Where we used to raise a glass or two
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Re-mem-ber how we laughed a-way the hours
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And dreamed of all the
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great things we would do

chorus
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Those were the days, my friend
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We thought they’d nev-er end
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We’d sing and dance for-ev-er and a day
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We’d live the life we choose
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We’d fight and nev-er lose
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For we were young and sure to have our way
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la la la la la la
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la la la la la la
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those were the days
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oh yes, those were the days

Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I’d see you in the tavern
We’d smile at one another and we’d say

chorus

Just tonight I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me

Hi! I’m a beginner on harmonica, and definitely a beginner on
harmonica tabs. Still, I have tried to figure out the Thomas Theme
Melody, please tell me if it sounds terrible! //Erlend

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Clara Turner
Key: Em
Time: 2/4

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Oh Thom-as my Thom-as
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Lis-ten what I said
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Don’t mar-ry no white girl
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Don’t mar-ry no red

Clara Turner
Key: Em
Time: 2/4

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Oh Thom-as my Thom-as

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Lis-ten what I said

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Don’t mar-ry no white girl

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Don’t mar-ry no red

1.
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This Year`s Love had better last
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Heaven knows it`s high time
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I`ve been waiting on my own too long
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And when you hold me like you do
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It feels so right oh now
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I start to forget how my heart gets torn when
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that hurt gets thrown, feeling like I can`t go
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on, This Year`s Love Had Better Last
2.
Turning circles and time again
It cut`s like a knife oh now
If you love me I got to know for sure
`Cos it takes something more this time
Than sweet, sweet lies oh now
Before I open my arms and fall Losing all control
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Every dream inside my soul
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When you kiss me on that midnight street,
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Sweep me off my feet, singing ain`t this life
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so sweet This Year`s Love Had Better Last
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This Years Love Had Better Last
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This Years Love Had Better Last
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This Years Love Had Better Last
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`Cos who`s to worry if our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown?
Don`t you know this life goes on?
Won`t you kiss me on that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain`t this life so aweet?
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This Year`s Love Had Better Last~~~~

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This years love had bet-ter last

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Hea-ven knows it’s high time

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I’ve been wait-ing on my own too long

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And when you hold me like you do

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it feels so right oh now

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I start to for-get how my heart gets torn

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When that hurt gets thrown

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Feel-ing like you can’t go on

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Turning circles time again
Cut like a knife, oh now
If you love me I got to know for sure
Cause it takes something more this time
than sweet sweet lies oh now,
Before I open up my arms and fall,
losing all control,
Every dream inside my soul,
when you kiss me on that midnight street,
Sweep me off my feet, singing ain’t this life so sweet

(CHORUS)

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This years love had bet-ter last

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This years love had bet-ter last

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Cause who’s to worry if our hearts get torn
When the hurt gets thrown
Don’t you know this life goes on
Won’t you kiss me on that midnight street,
Sweep me off my feet, singing ain’t this
life so sweet

(CHORUS TWICE)

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This years love had bet-ter last Whoah ah

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This years love had bet-ter last

ENJOY!!

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This world is not my home

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I’m just a pass-ing thru,

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My trea-sures are laid up

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some-where be-yond the blue;

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the an-gels beck-on me

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from heav-en’s o-pen door

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and I can’t feel at home

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in this world an-y more.

Chorus

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O Lord, I know,

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I have no friend like you,

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if heav-en’s not my home,

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O Lord what can I do?

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the an-gels beck-on me

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from heav-en’s o-pen door,

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and I can’t feel at home,

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in this world an-y more

They’re all expecting me
and that’s one thing I know,
my Savior pardoned me and
now I onward go;
I know He’ll take me through
though I am weak and poor
and I can’t feel at home
in this world anymore.
O Lord, you know,
I have no friend like you,
if heaven’s not my home
then Lord what will I do?
the angels beckon me
from Heaven’s open door,
and I can’t feel at home
in this world anymore.

Just up in Glory Land
we’ll live eternally,
the Saints on every hand
are shouting victory;
their song of sweetest praise
drifts back from heaven’s shore
and I can’t feel at home in this
world anymore. O Lord, you know,
I have no friend like you if heaven’s
not my home then Lord what will I do?
The angels beckon me from heaven’s
open door, and I can’t feel at home
in this world anymore.

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Been try-in’ so hard

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Just to talk to you

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Have-n’t heard half of

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What you want me to

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Hurt so bad o-ver

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Where we’ve been

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Don’t know how not to

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Go back there a-gain

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I know what I want to say

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Can I get it through to you now

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In some oth-er way…like

CHORUS

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There was this wo-man

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And there was this man

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And there was this mo-ment

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They had a chance to

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Hold on to what they had

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How could they be so in love

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And still nev-er see

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Now noth-in’ could be sad-der than

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This wo-man this wo-man and this man

VERSE 2

A stranger’s eyes in a lover’s face
See no signs of a better time and place
Have we lost the key to an open door
I feel the need to reach out to you even more
It’s a circle we’re goin’ ’round
If we don’t get us out from under
It’s gonna take us down…see

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE

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For all we’ve got to lose

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There’s so much to gain

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If we come this far

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And leave it be-hind

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There’s on-ly you and me to blame

REPEAT CHORUS

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Yeah we can bring it back a-gain

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This wo-man this wo-man and this man

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If your mem’ry serves you well,
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We were goin’ to meet again and wait,
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So I’m goin’ to unpack all my things
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And sit before it gets too late.
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No man alive will come to you
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With another tale to tell,
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But you know that we shall meet again
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If your mem’ry serves you well.
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This wheel’s on fire,
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Rolling down the road,
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Best notify my next of kin,
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This wheel shall explode!

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If your mem’ry serves you well,
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I was goin’ to confiscate your lace,
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And wrap it up in a sailor’s knot
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And hide it in your case.
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If I knew for sure that it was yours . . .
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But it was oh so hard to tell.
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But you knew that we would meet again,
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If your mem’ry serves you well.
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This wheel’s on fire,
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Rolling down the road,
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Best notify my next of kin,
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This wheel shall explode!

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If your mem’ry serves you well,
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You’ll remember you’re the one
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That called on me to call on them
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To get you your favors done.
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And after ev’ry plan had failed
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And there was nothing more to tell,
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You knew that we would meet again,
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If your mem’ry served you well.
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This wheel’s on fire,
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Rolling down the road,
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Best notify my next of kin,
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This wheel shall explode!

intro: (+5 +6 -6 -4 +6 -6 +4)*2 -8 +7 -7 +6 -6 +8 -8 -7 +6 -6
voice: ((+5 +6 -6 +5)*3 -4)*2 (-6 +6 -5 +5 +5 (+5 +6 -6 +5)*2 -4)*2

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This train is bound for _______ this train

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This train is bound for _______ this train

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This train is bound for ________this train

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Reel-in and a wheel-in

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and a rock-in and a roll-in

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This train is bound for __________this train

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This train is bound for glor-y, this train
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This train is bound for glor-y, this train
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This train is bound for glor-y,
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All a-board are righ-teous and hol-y
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This train is bound for glor-y, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no gam-blers, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no gam-blers, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no gam-blers,
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no crap shoo-ters or mid-night ram-blers
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This train don’t car-ry no gam-blers, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no li-ars, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no li-ars, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no li-ars,
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no hy-po-crites or truth de-ni-ers
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This train don’t car-ry no li-ars, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no con men, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no con men, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no con men
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whee-ler deal-ers, or here and gone men
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This train don’t car-ry no con men this train
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This train is bound for glo-ry, this train
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This train is bound for glo-ry, this train
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This train is bound for glo-ry,
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All a-board blieve the Je-sus sto-ry
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This train is bound for glo-ry, this train

Trad. folk
Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, Randy Travis
Key: E

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This train is bound for glo-ry this train
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This train is bound for glo-ry this train
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This train is bound for glo-ry
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Don’t ride noth-in’
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but the right-eous and the ho-ly
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This train is bound for glo-ry this train

Trad. folk
Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, Randy Travis
Key: E
Harp: A

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This train is bound for glo-ry this train

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This train is bound for glo-ry this train

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This train is bound for glo-ry

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Don’t ride noth-in’

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but the right-eous and the ho-ly

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This train is bound for glo-ry this train

Brightly!
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This train, don’t car-ry no gam-blers, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no gam-blers, this train
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This train don’t car-ry no gam-blers,
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No crap-shoo-ters or mid-night ram-blers
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This train don’t car-ry no gam-blers, this train.

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This train, is bound for glor-y, this train,
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This train is bound for glor-y this train,
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This train is bound for glor-y,
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All a-board hear the Je-sus stor-y,
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This train is bound for glor-y, this train,
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This train is bound for glor-y, (fade) this train.

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Youve got this strange ef-fect on me, And I like it.
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Youve got this strange ef-fect on me, And I like it.
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You make this world seem right,
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You make my dark-ness bright, yes,
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You’ve got this strange ef-fect on me,
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And I like it, and I like it

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And I like the way you kiss me,
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Don’t know if I should,
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but this fee-ling, Its love and I know it,
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Thats why I feel good.

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Youve got this strange ef-fect on me, And I like it.
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Youve got this strange ef-fect on me, And I like it.
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You make this world seem right,
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You make my dark-ness bright, yes,
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You’ve got this strange ef-fect on me,
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And I like it, and I like it

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Hello darling, this is the army, I’ve just got the time to write.

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Today we attack, there’s no turning back, the boys, they’re all ready
for the fight.

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Yes I’m well, but this place is like Hell. They call it
Passchendaele.

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In nineteen-seventeen, the war must be ending, the Gen’ral said this
attack will not fail.

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So I’m writing down this simple, little melody.

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When you play it my love, think of me__.

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We’ll be together in this song for you.

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And it goes…

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They got old Bill, the misogynist’s still out there wounded in some
shell hole.

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They say this war will end all wars, oh God, I really hope it will.

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How’s old England? Are they still singin’ those songs that we used to
sing?

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When all this is over we’ll go sailing in Dover, catching fish like we
used to on a string.

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Oh, I miss you, I miss you, I miss you so,

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If they get me, my love, you will know.

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We’ll always be together in this song for you.

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And it goes…

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Gonna follow where my heart will lead
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Gonna fill this life with you plus me
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and paint our world in shades of love

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Gonna plant a flower and watch it grow
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Gonna make ourselves a happy home
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And we will find our place and time

(Chorus)
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I’m running down
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Running down this road with you
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I’m running down
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Running down this road
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Running down this road with you

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This old man, he played ONE

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He played nick nack on my THUMB

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With a nick nack, paddy wack

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Give your dog a bone,

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This old man came rolling home

(Music Plays Intro)
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This ole house once knew his children
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This ole house once new his wife
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This ole house was home and comfort
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As they fought the storms of life
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This ole house once rang with laughter
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This ole house heard many shouts
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Now he trembles in the darkness
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When the lightning walks about.

Chorus
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(Ain’t a gonna need this house no longer
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Ain’t a gonna need this house no more)
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Ain’t got time to fix the shingles
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Ain’t got time to fix the floor
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Ain’t got time to oil the hinges
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Nor to mend no window panes
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Ain’t gonna need this house no longer
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He’s getting ready to meet his fate
(Interlude Then Repeat)
(Interlude Then Repeat)
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This ole house is getting shaky
This ole house is getting old
This ole house lets in the rain
This ole house lets in the cold
Oh his knees are a getting chilly
But he feels no fear nor pain
Cause he seeks a new tomorrow
Through a golden window pain
Chorus

This ole house is afraid of thunder
This ole house is afraid of storms
This ole house just groans and trembles
When the night wind flings it arms
This ole house is getting feeble
This ole house is a needing paint
Just like him it’s tuckered out
He’s a getting ready to meet his fate
Chorus

This plays with karaoke music, same Artist, run time 3:08. Wait til
the very end of the intro and the interludes.

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This ole house once knew his child-ren

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This ole house once knew his wife

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This ole house was home and com-fort

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As they fought the storms of life

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This old house once rang with laugh-ter

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This old house heard ma-ny shouts

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Now he trem-bles in the dark-ness

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When the light-nin’ walks a-bout

CHORUS:

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Ain’t a-gon-na need this house no lon-ger

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Ain’t a-gon-na need this house no more

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Ain’t got time to fix the shing-les

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Ain’t got time to fix the floor

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Ain’t got time to oil the hin-ges

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Nor to mend no win-dow panes

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Ain’t gon-na need this house no long-er

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He’s a-get-tin’ read-y to meet his fate

VERSE 2

This ole house is a-gettin’ shaky
This ole house is a-gettin’ old
This ole house lets in the rain
This ole house lets in the cold
On his knees are a-gettin’ chilly
But he feels no fear nor pain
‘Cause he seeks a new tomorrow
Through a golden window pane

CHORUS

VERSE 3

This ole house is afraid of thunder
This ole house is afraid of storms
This ole house just groans and trembles
When the night wind flings its arms
This ole house is a-gettin’ feeble
This old house is a-needin’ paint
Just like him it’s tuckered out
But he’s a-gettin’ ready to meet his fate

CHORUS

This ole house dog lies a-sleepin’
He don’t know I’m gonna leave
Else he’d wake up by the fireplace
And he’d sit there and howl and grieve
But my huntin’ days are over
Ain’t gonna hunt the coon no more
Gabriel done brought in my chariot
When the wind blew down the door

CHORUS

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This old man

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He played one

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He played knick knack on my thumb

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With a knick knack paddy whack

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Give the dog a bone

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This old man came rolling home

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This old man, he played one,

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He played nick-nack on my drum.

Chorus: (Repeat after each verse)
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With a nick-nack paddy whack

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Give a dog a bone,

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This old man came rolling home.

Verse 2:
This old man, he played two
He played nick-nack on my shoe.

Verse 3:
This old man, he played three,
He played nick-nack on my knee.

Verse 4:
This old man, he played four,
He played nick-nack on my door.

Verse 5:
This old man, he played five,
He played nick-nack on my hive.

Verse 6:
This old man, he played six,
He played nick-nack on my sticks.

Verse 7:
This old man, he played seven,
He played nick-nack up to heaven.

Verse 8:
This old man he played eight,
He played nick-nack on my gate.

Verse 9:
This old man, he played nine,
He played nick-nack on my line.

Verse 10:
This old man, he playe ten,
He played nick-nack on my hen.

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This old man he played one
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he played nick nack on my thumb
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with a nick nack paddy whack
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give a dog a bone
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this old man came rollin home

Trad. nursery rhyme
Key: D
Time: 2/4

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This old man, he played one,
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He played knick-knack on my drum.
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Knick-knack pad-dy whack
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Give the dog a bone,
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This old man came roll-ing home.

Trad. nursery rhyme
Key: D
Time: 2/4
Harp: G

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This old man, he played one,

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He played knick-knack on my drum.

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Knick-knack pad-dy whack

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Give the dog a bone,

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This old man came roll-ing home.

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This old man, he played ONE

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He played nick nack on my THUMB

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With a nick nack, paddy wack

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Give your dog a bone,

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This old man came rolling home.

Other stanzas: TWO — SHOE
THREE — KNEE
FOUR — DOOR
FIVE — HIVE
SIX — STICKS
SEVEN — HEAVEN
EIGHT — GATE
NINE — SPINE
TEN — ONCE AGAIN

W: Oscar Hammerstein II
M: Richard Rogers
From: South Pacific
Key: Eb
Time: 3/4

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One dream in my heart,
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One love to be liv-ing for,
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One love to be liv-ing for
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This near-ly was mine.

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Close to my heart she came
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On-ly to fly a-way,
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On-ly to fly as day flies from moon-light.
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Now, now I’m a-lone,
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Still dream-ing of par-a-dise,
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Still say-ing that par-a-dise
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Once near-ly was mine.

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One girl for my dream,
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One part-ner in par-a-dise,
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This prom-ise of par-a-dise
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This near-ly was mine.

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Close to my heart she came
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On-ly to fly a-way,
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On-ly to fly as day flies from moon-light.
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Now, now I’m a-lone,
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Still dream-ing of par-a-dise,
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Still say-ing that par-a-dise
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Once near-ly was mine.

Verse 1:

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One dream in my heart,

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One love to be liv-ing for,

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One love to be liv-ing for

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This near-ly was mine.

Chorus:

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Close to my heart she came

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On-ly to fly a-way,

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On-ly to fly as day flies from moon-light.

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Now, now I’m a-lone,

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Still dream-ing of par-a-dise,

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Still say-ing that par-a-dise

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Once near-ly was mine.

Verse 2:

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One girl for my dream,

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One part-ner in par-a-dise,

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This prom-ise of par-a-dise

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This near-ly was mine.

Chorus

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Home is where I want to be
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Pick me up and turn me around
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I feel numb, born with a weak heart
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I guess I must be hav-ing fun

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The less we say a-bout it the bet-ter
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Make it up as we go a-long
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Feet on the ground, head in the sky
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It’s O-kay, I know noth-ing’s wrong, noth-ing

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Hey Oh, I got plen-ty of time
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Hey Oh, you got light in your eyes
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And your stand-ing here be-side me
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I love the pass-ing of time
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Nev-er for mon-ey, al-ways for love
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Co-ver up and say good-night, say good-night

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Home is where I want to be
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But, I guess I’m al-read-y there
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I come home, she lift-ed up her wings
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I guess that this must be the place

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I can’t tell one from the oth-er
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Did I find you or you find me?
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There was a time be-fore we were born
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If some-one asks, this is where I’ll be,
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Where I’ll be,

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Hey oh, We drift in and out
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Hey oh, sing in-to my mouth
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Out of all those kinds of peo-ple
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You got a face with a view

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I’m just and an-i-mal look-in’ for a home
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And share the same space for a min-ute or two
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And you love me till my heart stops
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Love me till I’m dead

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Eyes that light up
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Eyes look through you
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Cover up the blank spots
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Hit me in the head, I got ohhhh
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Ah, ooo, oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo