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[Verso 1]
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 We met one summer evening 
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As the sun was going down 
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She was lying on the beach 
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In her graduation gown 
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 She was wrapped up in a blanket 
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 (I could tell she knew her way around)
 
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G7            C/G    G7       C/G 
 And as I lay down beside her 
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 You know she never made a sound 



[Verso 2]
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 On down the beach 
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 Came the beach-cleaning man 
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 Scoopin' up paper 
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 And flattening down the sand 
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 "Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda ... we've got to run away 

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G7           C/G         G7       C/G 
 That big white truck is closin' in 
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     And we'll get wounded if we stay" 


[Verso 3]
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 Now Lucinda lies buried 
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 'Neath the California sand 
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 Put under 
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By the beach-cleaning man 
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Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda - why'd you have to go?
 
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           G7 N.C. 
Well, they sent her to high school 
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They sent her to low school 
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 She just wouldn't go no further 

Outro 
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(repeat and fade out)