Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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All lying like lumps in the bed I'll light
kettle
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And jam and butter on the bread
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Wake up you sleepy -headed children
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Wake up and out of bed
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There's a visitor who's calling
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again
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Well, I might be a kid with a sleepy old head,
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but I don't believe it's right
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in' in the middle of the night
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Well, I'm gonna tell this visitor
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To come around here callin' when everyone's
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sleepin' tight
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and put something on your feet
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This visitor is not the kind of fella you can
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talk to walking down the street
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And go and tell your sister
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And wrap a blanket around your shoulder
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And out the door to be sweet
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Both living on the left and the right
But I never thought I'd
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In the yard in the middle of the night
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bours I got an awful fright
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All out in their pyjamas
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night
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And he's saying look up, look up
And the lady next door,
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she's trying to pour hot tea in a little tin cup
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She points and says, look up there,
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And I stretched and
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strained and squinted
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And I said, I'd just give up
And she said,
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that thing you're trying so hard to see
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Don't look at it directly
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It'll hide from you like an old gecko
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on a gum tree
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Well that depends
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Then someone says I see it,
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and another one says I think I see it
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If there's a long and fiery tale,
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then that'll be it
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And the old man's following a sky map
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To the right of the
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High 80s, to the left of the
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Like fishing for an aspirin,
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loose at the bottom of a bag
The
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I played the gameplay 80s
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all through the 1980s
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3 worth of 20s
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day
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be so quiet in the light of the moon
In the day we're told to not play on the
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road where the cars all race and hoon
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All up and down the day time they
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race and howl and hoon
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And send the cats all flying or else
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meet their roadside ruin
We got five cats buried in the
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garden and three across the road
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and I remember their furry little faces every
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time I mowed the grass around the
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garden and the grass across the road where
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we dig the bait worms wriggling to
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the croak of an old cane toe
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she said that thing you're trying to
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see don't look at it directly
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It'll hide from you like an old gecko on a gum tree
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Blazing through the endless black
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If he ever makes it back
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Through the deep and silent black
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He'll never look behind him,
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and he'll never leave his track
Everything goes in circles,
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we head back to where we've been
And all become the aggregate
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sum of what lay in between
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It sure has been eye -opening,
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But that night -time sky ablaze,
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all brilliant and amazing
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Above the house that I was raised in,
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still the prettiest thing I've seen
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