Intro: 
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"Don't you let the lessons stop, time ain't just hands on a clock"  
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That's what I'm gonna tell Pop when I leave  
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A vision on the lonely road, it's something that i gotta know:  
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If i can drive this car all on my own 

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I guess i'll leave my girl behind, I should have done that long ago  
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Sometime I'm sure the pain will go away  
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It wasn't working anyhow, the burners on the stove burnt out  
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A shame I didn't figure it out before  

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Girls, gather round and let that long hair down  
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Sing along with me before I go  
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Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the  
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Things that we ain't never gonna know  

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I met a man in San Francisco, he told me he did the same thing  
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Fifty years ago, he left his girl behind  
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He sits there in the park one hand is strumming his guitar  
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Songs he found inside a bottle of wine 
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I saw the same things on his face, the ones that made me race away from  
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everything i'd ever really known 
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the scare to take responsibility from here -and put her there- 
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Where everyone can see the seeds you've sown 

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Girls, gather round and let that long hair down  
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Sing along with me before I go  
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Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the  
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Things that we ain't never gonna know  

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Am            C                  F         C  
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down  
Am         F                G 
Sing along with me before I go  
Am            C         F                    C 
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the  
F                          G     C 
Things that we ain't never gonna know  

C 
You know my line Joe? 

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If you think about the Creature that you might have thought would teach you  
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That our hearts are just the thing right from the start 
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It would keep us from the worries, safe from sound and safe from fury,  
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Safe at home besides the ones we know we loved 
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If you told me from the start that I could never be apart from her,  
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I'd tell you, "go to hell, get out of my way"  
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But i've come back with my tail between my legs I didn't know the way  
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A man can't be a man all on his own  

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Girls, gather round and let that long hair down  
Am         F                G 
Sing along with me before I go  
Am            C         F                    C 
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the  
F                          G     C 
Things that we ain't never gonna know  

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The sun is going down on this lonesome town  
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But I got you here to keep my company 
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You ever had the feeling that we're living for a reason?  
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For that reason I won't ever let you go  
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You ever had the feeling that we're living for a reason?  
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For that reason I won't ever let you go  
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For that reason I won't ever let you go  
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For that reason I won't ever let you go 
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       For that reason I won't ever let you go