When the man in the hobnail boots asked me what war was going on
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I didn't have the heart to tell him that peace had just begun
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He didn't believe he said do or die
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I couldn't deceive and so I said goodbye
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Got a friend with a silver lady shows me many ways to laugh
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It's a one-way love affair but she shines in his photographs
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He don't like a crowd but don't get him wrong
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He does his thinking aloud he makes it up as he goes along
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I want to do right by you but you mustn't do wrong by me
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Sitting in a lonely room with a friend with lots to tell
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He doesn't ask me for advice but then I've got nothing to sell
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We trade in a joke we've got nothing to hide
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We're just simple folk it makes me feel good inside
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I want to do right by you but you mustn't do wrong by me
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So when we're having our last meal and I ask you for a light
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Don't get me wrong because the last thing that I want is for us to fight
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So get back to school and I'll do the same
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But don't play the fool and we'll both win this game
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I want to do right by you but you mustn't do wrong by me
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Do Right Bayou
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Hugh Cornwell |