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Verse
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He had a Martin I had a Fender, we were thirteen years of age
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Out back in the tool shed, we were searchin? for the same
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Everyday all through that summer, we?d rock n roll and rage
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All the neighbors kept complainin?, but it never slowed us down.
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We sang Three Verses of Dixie, Can't Get No Satisfaction
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Rainy Women Numbers 12 and 35
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Try A Little Tenderness, A Whiter Shape Of Pale
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Turn Turn Turn, For What It's Worth, Long Black Veil.
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Moved out to California, shootin? for the stars
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The biggest thing since Elvis, nothin? could go wrong
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But they took us for all our money, and everything else we owned
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So we got ourselves some whiskey, and we drank it all night long.
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We sang Three Verses of Dixie, Can't Get No Satisfaction
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Rainy Women, and A Bad Moon On The Rise
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Try A Little Tenderness, A Whiter Shape Of Pale
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Turn Turn Turn, For What It's Worth, Long Black Veil.
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Oh we never quite got over it, we when out separate ways
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He traded in his music for cocaine nights, and reckless days
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Still I knew he always wanted, to make one last journey home.
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Near a small white church in the valley, beneath a wooden bridge
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Patiently we waited, on that cold Alabama rain
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Then the preacher started preachin?, about lives and about our times
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The sun was slowly sinkin?, as we laid his body down.
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We sang Three Verses of Dixie, What a Friend We Have In Jesus
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Walkin? In The Garden, and The Old Rugged Cross
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Try A Little Tenderness, A Whiter Shape Of Pale
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Turn Turn Turn, For What It's Worth, Long Black Veil.
Outro
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We sang Long Black Veil
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We sang Long Black Veil.