[Teacher:]
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Ok class ok everybody settle down
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Everybody settle down
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Um as you all know we've been working
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Real hard on getting our school essays done
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Does anybody have theirs to read first?
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[Sammie:]
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Mr. Evans my essay is ready
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[Teacher:]
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Ok everybody Sammie has the floor
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[Sammie:]
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When I grow up
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I wonder if people will be more afraid
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To cry than they are to die
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Will I be able to see a rainbow
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In a smog-filled sky?
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Will there be any trees alive?
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If not, how will the planet survive?
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Will the Internet have a web-site at
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www.lifetimeairsupply?
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When I grow up
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If I got bored and had nothing to do
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And me and my son built a canoe
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Would water that used to be blue
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Be so polluted it would give us the flu?
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Will a thousand dollars be enough for a shoe?
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Will I have to be like you?
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Letting money make a decision
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For everything that I do?
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When I grow up
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Will the existence of dolphins and whales
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Just be story I tell?
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Starting with "Once upon a time..."
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Ending with "Where did we fail?"
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Will adults be the hammer and nail?
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Will schools be next door to jails?
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Will the truth be illegal to sell?
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When I grow up
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Will anyone be on the news
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For anything besides killing?
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Will those drug dealers still
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Be standing in front of my building?
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Will they ever learn how to love?
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Or stay afraid of the feeling?
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Will TV and music videos
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Still raise America's children?
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When I grow up
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Will innocent kids still be
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Wrongfully touched?
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Will students go home from school
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In a bulletproof bus?
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What if children had no one to trust?
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That would hurt me so much
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And I wanna be happy when I grow up
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When I Grow Up (Interlude)
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| Sammie |
