Key: A major
Verse 1
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A snowy street, a foreign bed
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A cold, cold room, no prayers are read
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A baby's born, the doctor weeps
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Holds it close while the mother sleeps,
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uh -huh
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The son is named after
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Abel, the poet is too tired to care.
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daughter's hair on.
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The doctor is so very young,
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he saves the mother then he saves the son.
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He could not know that he
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would live so long
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And tell their story after they were gone
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The war's still on, back home again
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long reprieve, no, no
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A leather belt, a stable hook,
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a legend now for the storybook
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there is no place to go, no, no
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The doctor is so very young
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He could not know that he
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would live so long
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And tell their story after they were
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gone
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When he was old, the doctor said
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She lay there smoking in that bed
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She laughed at him, a scared young man
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us if you can
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The doctor is so very young
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He could not know that he
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would live so long
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And tell their story after they were gone
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No, he could not know that
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he would live so long
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And tell their story after they were gone
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After they were gone
you
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