Key: F major
Verse 1
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If there's a God, he is laughing at us
Verse 2
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Effington could be
a wonderful effing place
I can see it from the highway
and I'm wondering
Are they effing in their yards?
Effing in their cars?
Effing in the trailers in the back
roads and the parking lots
Of Effington? Making my way to Normal,
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Illinois.
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Maybe I should ditch this little white
rental on the interstate,
Start a new effing life in Effington.
I could change my name,
grow a beard, start a family
Or I could just keep on moving on,
moving on, moving on, moving on
And not stop 'til I get to Normal.
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[Chorus] I want to live
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in Effington.
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I want to die there too.
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Please bury me in Effington
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InEffington, in Effington, oh
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I've got this movie in my
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Verse 7
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If
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there's a God he is laughing at us
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Em
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And our football team.
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And then the people who live in Normal
Can buy the movies that I'll make
in Effington
That's what Normal people do
Do Normal people do it too?
Normal people do it,
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people do it, people do it
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Verse 9
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Effington, in Eff
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ington, in Effington!
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