Can I hear the story about the one legged soldier?
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Please?
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And can you tell me the story of the soldier?
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Please?
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One more time
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Or I'll knock your nose off
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Not so long ago in a toy room not so far away
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Lived a boy who had so many toys
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And he didn't know what to do with them all
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With them all, with them all
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Well his favorite of all the toys
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were the tin soldiers, the tin soldiers
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And the one that he loved the most
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was the one with the missing leg
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At night the toys would come alive
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Or that's how the story is told
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And there they met the soldier
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With the missing leg
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And the ballerina with the heart of gold
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At night they would share each others dreams
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Under the stars shining bright
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But they were too shy
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To speak of love, to speak of love
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One day the boy sat them on the windowsill
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To watch for the enemy coming over the hill
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But when the wind it blew
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It knocked him into the street
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And the boys from the town they said
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Won't you look at the one legged soldier
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Let's stick him in a boat and send him far away
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'Cause we can't find a use
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For a soldier with a missing leg
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And he was lonely, so lonely for a friend
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And he was lonely, so lonely for a friend
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He was so lonely
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Yeah
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As he floated past a river rat
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On his homemade boat
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Well the boat began to sink
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And he sank to the bottom of the river
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He got swallowed by a fish
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Caught by a fisherman
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Sold to the family of the boy who had the toys
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And the cook said look at the one legged soldier
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It looks just like the one we lost the other day
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Could this be the boy's tin soldier with the missing leg?
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But he was lonely, so lonely for a friend, oh
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And he was lonely, so lonely for a friend
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He was so lonely, yeah
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Oh yeah so lonely, oh yeah
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What about the ballarina?
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As he sat on the mantle piece to dry from the river
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The ballerina who held his heart sat at his side
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And when they got up to dance with each other
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She fell by the fire blazing bright
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When he jumped to save her from the flames
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Their bases began to melt into one and the same
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And now they share each other's destiny
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Together forever they will be
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And they are no longer lonely for a friend
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And they are no longer lonely for a friend
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No longer lonely, yeah
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no longer lonely
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Whoa whoa
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Yeah
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Whoa
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No longer lonely, yeah
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Well not so long ago in a toy room not so far away
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Lived a boy who had so many toys
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And he played with them all
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With them all, with them all
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Well he had a ballerina and a one legged soldier
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stuck together at the base
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And they share each others destiny
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as they sit on top of the mantel place
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It's the story of the one legged soldier
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The story of the one legged soldier
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The story of the tin soldier
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with the missing leg...
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Soldier
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Hanson |