(Heaton/Rotheray)
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She'd given everything she could give
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Twenty years of kindness made her sad
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Kindness never made enough to live
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So she sold the very last thing that she had
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As she held her hand out to him
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As he drove around the block
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He mouthed through the window 'just hold on'
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'I've held on many years now and I haven't found a lot'
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Hold on, hold on to what?
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So hold on to what? Hold on to what?
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Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got
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I'll need a pair of stilts if I'm to ever reach the top
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So hold on! Hold on to what?
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Many years of service with a smile
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Up shit creek and down the Rhine
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Gibraltar Rock and now the Emerald Isle
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He'd shined every shoe that he could shine
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And as he lay in his own blood
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Screaming 'I've been shot'
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He heard the Major whisper 'just hold on'
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'I've held on all these years now, now what medal have I got?'
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Hold on, hold on to what?
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So hold on to what? Hold on to what?
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Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got
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I'll need a pair of stilts if I'm to ever reach the top
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So hold on! Hold on to what?
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So hold on to what? Hold on to what?
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Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got
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I'll need a pair of stilts if I'm to ever reach the top
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So hold on! Hold on to what?
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Sixty years and he's looking his worst
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Sitting in the park where she'd died
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Running hands through his final hair
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These are the words that he cried
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To achieve the American dream
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You need a trampoline
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To achieve the counter effect
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Get that whisky down your neck'
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And hold on, hold on to what?
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Chamberlain had his paper
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Jesus had his cross
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They held on
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We held on to what?
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Hold On To What ?
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| The Beautiful South |
