Found a book of interest the other day
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Compositions for the young and old to sing
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Poems written many years ago
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They told of family and hope and other things
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Put together in the old days
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When fifteen cents, it was a buck
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That's when five would get you ten
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Before it took you eight just to get you one
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Some people, they don't care when they're down on their luck
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Cheap thrills are awful hard to find these days
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No one is amused for free
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Someone's pulling on your mama's apron strings
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You'd better run and see who it is
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Playing cards with your neighbors on the back porch
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Singing with an old beat-up guitar
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Going to the local swimming hole
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Until they closed it down, now there's nowhere to go
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Things used to be so simple, long time ago
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Now everything is so expensive and complicated
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I hear you need a license for just about anything
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Used to be that a handshake was a man's word
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Now we settle arguments in court
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No one trusts anyone's intentions anymore
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Rummaging through the attic when I'm home
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It brings back those memories to me
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I'd amuse myself when I was small
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When I was younger, the simplest things would do
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Now I'm on everybody's mailing list
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For things I can't afford to buy
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I hear the weatherman
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He says "It looks like rain for a while"
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I guess I'll have to stay inside
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Make peanut butter sandwiches and cry
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Compositions For The Young And Old
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| Bob Mould |
