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It was twenty-five years ago when I began my life
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The second child of a woman who tried hard to raise us right
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She married a man when I was just a babe
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Who treated me just like his own, even giving me his name
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I never knew my father, I only knew his name
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I never knew the way he moved
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How he talked, or what he said
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Now I'm grown and mama says,
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"You're like your daddy, just the same"
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Sometimes I got to wondering, about this man I never knew
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When I'd find myself into something, just the way he used to do
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Heard stories all my life of how he loved to sing
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And how he would take apart and fix most anything
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I never knew my father, I only knew his name
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I never knew the way he moved
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How he talked, or what he said
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Now I'm grown and mama says,
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"You're like your daddy, just the same"
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