Y'all should have seen me
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When I was sixteen years old
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Had my hair hangin' free down my back
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It used to shine in the sun like gold.
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Went eight years of grade school
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Four years of high school
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I was never sick one day
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And the kids that were with you in the first grade
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Were with you all the way
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We'd go over to Augusta for a ball game
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We'd all go down to Daytona for the race
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We'd go over to the drive-in every Friday
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Shining in the sun like gold
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Some cold winter morning, outside the school
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And the bell hadn't rung just yet
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We stand outside the gate, smoke a cigarette
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Brushin' the snow off our clothes, and lean against the wall
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Shining
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And there wasn't no baby cryin'
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And there wasn't no laundry waitin' for me on the line
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If I didn't want to be alone, I didn't have to be alone
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All I had to do was shine
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Shining
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Shining
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Lord there must be something better
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Lord it just don't seem right
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To cook the same breakfast for the same man every morning
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Sleep with the same man every night
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For the rest of my life
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For the rest of my life
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Shining
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| Randy Newman |
