Electric chair didn't burn a hair
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and the newspaperman asked why
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and while the warden explain in great detail
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the newsman looked in the sky
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"I'm sure!", he said, "if you look a little deeper
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for something in his life
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we could understand the reason why
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he reached out for a knife."
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Oooh! What happened to the promise?
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Oooh! what happened to the one we knew?
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So, onto a a train the newspaperman rode
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down to the southern lands
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to find out about a child long gone
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turned into a lightning man.
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Chorus:
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Oooh! what happened to the promise?
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Oooh! what happened to the one we knew?
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Oooh! what happened to the promise?
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Oooh! what happened to the heart so true.
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"Some of them make it through", she said
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"some of them never do, and one of them
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got lost in time -- that child of mine
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Oh, I loved that child of mine!"
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Arriving in a country town
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with a notepad in his hand
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he spoke to the mother and the father
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and a friend and a teacher and a preacher man
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They all recalled a regular boy chewing gim
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and playing in the sand
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nothing could explain how he became
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a lonely lightning man
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And when the coffin came
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on the southbound train
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and the old folks shuffled by
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the one they came to bury
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was not very heavy, just a child lost in time
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Chorus
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What happens to the clear blue eye
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when it enters the forest?
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does anybody know where the little one goes?
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what happens to the child in time?
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-- some of them make it through
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-- some of them never do
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-- some of them are lost and saved
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-- some of them find their way
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oooh -- hold on to the promise
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we're going to make it through my baby
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we're going to make it through my little darling
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The Promise
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| Johnny Clegg & Savuka |
