I want to tell you a story
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Once upon a time
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There were five young guys
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Hanging in and out of Newcastle,
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Playing Rhythm and Blues
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They had nothing to lose
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They didn't need that tin-pan hassle
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Over the Reeperbahn where the beat was born
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Shocking the heart of the nation
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Sign of the times
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A new search in life
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Start of a new rock generation
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From day one to kingdom come
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I'd do it all again
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I used to be an animal (he used to be an animal)
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I used to be an animal (he used to be an animal)
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I used to be an animal (whoa, oh)
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But I'm all right now
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All right now, baby
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Twenty years ago we were children of war
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But we danced to the Bo Diddley beat
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There were rockers and mods,
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We didn't take it too hard
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We had blue suede shoes on our feet
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A revolution in France and James Brown's dance
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A new world coming our way
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We'd talk that talk in the streets of New York
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And never looked back to this day
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From day one to the risin' sun
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I'll do it all again
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I used to be an animal (he used to be an animal)
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I used to be an animal (he used to be an animal)
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I used to be an animal (whoa, oh)
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But I'm all right now
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All right, all right, all right
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Yeah, yeah, all right, whoa baby
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We were flippin' and trippin'
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And rockin' and rollin'
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And generally havin' a ball
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For the price of a drink
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There was no time to think about the morality of it all
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There was freaks and queens and love-ins and has-beens
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Whisky-a-gogos and all night flamingos
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A psychedelic explosion in slow motion,
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Dr Strangelove's bomb
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From day one to the risin' sun
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I'll do it all again (whoa, oh, oh)
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I used to be an animal (he used to be an animal)
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I used to be an animal (he used to be an animal)
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I used to be an animal (whoa, oh)
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But I'm all right now
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All right, all right,
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Yeah, yeah,
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All right, all right,
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I'm all right nowˇ¦
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(Jackson-Clark, Burdon, Bastow)
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I Used to Be An Animal
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| The Animals |
