Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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to come to our house and knock on our door.
"What do you want girl?"
And she'd say,
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"Can I take a bath with Mark?"
"My son ain't here,"
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door and we'd all laugh.
walk down the street
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Paul McCartney's autograph.
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others; she wore thick- rimmed glasses.
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er kids and was in different kid of classes.
Verse 2
When she got older a neighborhood
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And started taking her wel
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fare payments.
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put away for her and he went off with it.
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he did a little time and cut too many years later.
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He's doing life in a Florida penitentiary with his father,
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both of them for murder.
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Micheline,
Verse 3
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Micheline. Micheline,
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Micheline. Micheline, Micheline, Micheline.
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She wanted love like anyone else.
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Micheline, Micheline, Micheline,
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She had dreams like anyone else.
Verse 4
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My friend Brett, my friend Brett, my friend Brett, my friend Brett,
he liked to play the guitar.
way of playing barre chords
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With two fingers spreading his index
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and middle fingers really far apart.
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One day in band practice he dropped like a deer
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was shot and was flipping around like a fish.
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He had an aneurysm triggered by a nerve in his
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hand from the strain he was putting on it.
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I went to see him in Ohio; he had a horseshoe
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shaped scar on his scalp and he talked real slow.
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We played pool like we did in our teens and his head was
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shaved and he still wore bell- bottomed jeans.
Verse 5
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when I called home
I got a part in a movie
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something that you need to know."
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you really should send a letter to his mom and dad."
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somewhere between happy and sad.
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My friend Brett, my friend Brett. My
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My friend Brett, my friend
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He had a wife and a son.
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My friend Brett, my friend
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Brett, my friend Brett.
He just liked to play guitar
Verse 6
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Before she passed away we'd go and visit her
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at my aunt's house when I was small.
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I couldn't bear the shape she was in so at the
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top of the driveway I'd sit in the car.
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One day I was just fucking around when I put
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it in reverse and I was free- falling.
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I remember the car moving back
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wards; my heart was beating and I blacked out.
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Another car was coming down the street and I
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totaled them both and I got knocked out.
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My grandma, my grandma,
Verse 7
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my grandma, my grandma.
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First time I met her, she lived in L.A.; I think
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it was Huntington Park.
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I made friends with a kid named Marceau and an
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other kid named Cyrus Hunt.
cream and feed french fries to the pigeons
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vets from Vietnam.
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It was the first time I saw a hummingbird,
a palm tree, or a lizard.
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Or saw an ocean,
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or heard David Bowie's "Young Americans"
And I saw the movie "Benji" in
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theaters.
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My grandma, my grandma. My grandma,
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my grandma.
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My grandma, my grandma,
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my grandma.
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I heard she had a pretty hard life.
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But after her first
husband passed away
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he treated her really nice.
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My grandma, my grandma. My grand
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ma,
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my grandma.
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My grandma, my grandma, my grandma.
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My grandma was diagnosed
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at 62.
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Her kids stepped up to the plate for her
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and were there the whole way through.
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