May I be allowed to voice dissent
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Over the Sixties, and what they meant
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Cos I've been listening for twenty years
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The anecdotes ring in my ears
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From people who were over the age of consent
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Now I don't recall too much long hair
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At least not around where we used to stay
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The only guy we thought was okay
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Who wore his hair the Beatles way
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Was a Belfast boy that Man United play
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Mother's Pride on the table, Batman on TV
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A Man in a Suitcase, and Daktari and Skippy
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Jimmy Clitheroe, Colin Stein, and Lulu selling tea
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Going to school in the dark, in the winter
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The view from beneath my balaclava
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The world from four feet off the floor
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Must have had its limitations
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Without my adult complications
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But I can only report what I saw
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And I sawa¢æ|
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Lucky bags, Bazooka Joes, animal tracks on my shoes
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I was sooking milk through a straw
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in the middle of the morning
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Saturday morning pictures, and fireworks getting thrown
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Football songs in the shelter in the playground
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St Cuthbert's horses pulling the carts of the milkmen
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You know, it's funny, but
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I don't recall too much long hair
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Lulu Selling Tea
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The Proclaimers |