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In the town that I once called me home,
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It was early in winter; the evening was chill.
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Just in for the day, and then far off tomorrow,
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I'd just a few hours to kill.
Though I was indifferent, me feet were quite certain
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Of just where they wanted to be:
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It was off to the Old Number Ten where my friends
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Would be drinking and waiting for me.
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I first had me doubts when the paint on the outside
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Was no longer peeling and old,
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And a sign that said gaily "Hot lunches served daily"
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Had the blood in me veins running cold.
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You drinking men at the Old Number Ten,
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You seem such a long time ago.
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You seem so much different since last time we met,
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But maybe it's me; I don't know.
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Into the bar I went, ordered a jar and then
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Looked for a face from the past,
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But no one there knew me; the way they looked through me,
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I might have been made out of glass.
I said "I used to come here, you know, years and years ago."
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"Well, Sir, it must warm your heart
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To see, how we've changed it and quite rearranged it
D
And got it all looking quite smart.
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"I can tell by your clothes you're a fella who knows
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The way a good pub should be run,
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With no spitting or swearing or overall-wearing
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Like the old days when you used to come".
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But you drinking men at the Old Number Ten,
G D
You seem such a long time ago.
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You seem so much different since last time we met,
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But maybe it's me; I don't know.
With me heart feeling heavy as I was just ready
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To finish me Guinness and go,
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I saw an old face that glistened in the fire that had listened
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To more tales than you'll ever know.
With the years in between, it was foolish to dream
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That he'd ever remember my face,
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But I bought him a beer and as I set it down near him,
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The old man looked up from his place.
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"By Christ, is it thee?" he said. "Well, bugger me," he said.
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"Champion to see thee again!
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Isn't it strange how you just haven't changed?" I said.
Em A
"Neither have you, me old friend."
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"Is it thee?" he said. "I'll go to sea" he said.
G D
"Champion to see thee again!
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Isn't it strange how you just haven't changed?" I said.
Em A
"Neither have you, my old friend."
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But you drinking men at the Old Number Ten,
G D
You seem such a long time ago.
G D F#m
You seem so much different since last time we met,
A walk down to F# walk up to D
But maybe it's me; I don't know.