Key: B major
Verse 1
ladies and gentlemen.
Surely do appreciate it.
This next song I'm gonna do
for y 'all tonight
and growing up.
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memory lane real quick.
I got my man Sonny Bonahoe
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I'ma let him set it off like this.
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When I was a child,
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things were plain and beautiful
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things were plain and beautiful
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Beautiful things was just time to leave
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An d home replaced where
anyone could see
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I wish I could go back,
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I miss livin' with no
to starin' Ninja Turtles
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In Street Fighter II, in Super Mario World,
you're all that
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Life was so simple then,
on the playground at recess
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Man, remember bowlin' at Leilani
and down to Sunset?
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to daily straight shut down Funplex
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But it's all good, you know
was to be a professional in basketball
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to make it in this rap shit
let me bar the chronic
and straight got hooked
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things were plain and beautiful
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Beautiful things were just not to be
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And home and place where
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things were plain and beautiful
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Beautiful things can just come to me
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Every place where anyone can see,
yeah
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As an obnoxious little shit, you know
one -on -one and fight
you don't really want it right
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And my hero at the time,
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So naturally, I wanted to kick his ass
DL up in gym class
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Yeah, I was corny as hell
when trying to act hard
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When used to re -enact Raw's
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And I remember watching
but you're my doom to the end
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And the first time I kissed a girl,
for believing in my talent show
for denying my ass from
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things were plain and beautiful
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s which has come to be
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A homely place where
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things were plain an d beautiful
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Beautiful things which has come to be
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A homely place where anyone can sit
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One of the G's, Steve,
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Josh, Keith and D
Yeah, those were my dudes
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And Bob and Ryan, Kim, Chris,
And now I'm wishin' that
they went slow
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drinkin' forties at the bluff
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Evading cops at Green Lake
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And I re member freestylin'
to Andy's old crib
his mom was like a home kid
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It's all up though, I ain't gonna be fake
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It was a wake -up call for me
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And so, I got a job in the kitchen
To make my CD and it's no joke,
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Big ups to Dash for lettin' me straight
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Hoes with his salad days
In front of the whole school, for real
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If I could turn back the hands of time
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Things eventually change
down memory lane
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If I could turn back the hands of time
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Man I'd go back and
do it all over again
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Things eventually change
down memory lane
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When I was a child
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things were plain and beautiful
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Beautiful things was just out to reach
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When I was a child
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Em
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things were plain and beautiful
Beautiful things was just out to reach
Yeah
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