good old days chords by Weird Al Yankovic

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Intro 1

Oh some times

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I think back to when I was younger
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Life was so much simpler then
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Dad would be up at dawn
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He'd be watering the lawn
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Or maybe going fishing again

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Oh and mom would be fixing up

something in the kitchen

Fresh biscuits or hot apple pie

And I'd spend all day long

in the basement

Torturing rats with a hack-saw

And And pulling the wings off of flies

Those were the

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good old days
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Those were the good old days
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The years go by but the
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memory stays
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And those were the good
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old days

Verse 4
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I can still remember
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good old Mr. Fender
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Who ran the corner grocery store
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Oh, he'd strolled down the aisle
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with a big friendly smile
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And he'd say "Howdy" when
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you walked in the door

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Always treated me nice,
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gave me kindly advice
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I don't know why I set fire to his place
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Oh I'll never forget the day
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I bashed in his head
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Well you should've seen
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the look on his face
Let me tell ya now
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Those were the

Verse 6
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Those were the good old days
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The years go by but
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the memory stays
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And those were the good old days
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Interlude 1

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Do you remember sweet Michelle

She was my high school romance

She was fun to talk to and nice to smell

So I took her to the homecoming dance

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Then I tied her to a chair and
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I shaved off all her hair
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And I left her in the desert all alone
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Well sometimes in my dreams
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I can still hear the screams
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Oh I wonder if she ever made it home
I tell ya
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Those were the

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good old days
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Those were the good old days
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The years go by but
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the memory stays
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And those were the good old days
Let me tell ya buddy
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Those were the good

Verse 10
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old days
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Those were the good old days
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The years go by but the memory
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stays
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And those were the good
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old days
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