Key: C major
Verse 1
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There was a story
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in the San Francisco chronicle
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That of course I forgot to say it
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But it was about a lady who lived in the
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'good old days'
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When a century was born and a
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century had died
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And about these 'good old
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days' the old lady replied
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"Why they were just a lot of people
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doing the best they could"
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"Just a lot of people do
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ing the best they could"
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And then the lady said that they did it,
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"pretty up and walking good"
Verse 2
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faces in the old photographs
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I mean, the little boys
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Boys?
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Hell they were men
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in the Johnstown mud
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In the time of that terrible flood
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And they listened to the water
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That awful noise
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And then they put away the dreams
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that belonged to little boys
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Verse 3
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for Mister Bouie
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class of nineteen- two
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Oh, mother country, I do love you
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Oh, mother country, I do love you
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I knew a man
Verse 4
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spelled S.T.U.A.R.T.
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And he owned some of the finest horses
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that I think I've ever seen
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And he had one favorite, a champion,
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the old campaigner
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And he called her "Sweet
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heart On Parade"
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And she was easily the finest
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horse that the good Lord ever made
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But old E.A. Stuart,
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he was going blind
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And he said "Before I go,
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I gotta drive her one more time"
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So people came from miles around,
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and they stood around the ring
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No one said a word
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You know, no one said a thing
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Then here they come,
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E.A. Stuart in the wagon right behind
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Sitting straight and proud and
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he's driving her stone blind
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And would you look at her
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Oh, she never looked finer
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or went better than today
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It's E.A. Stuart, and the old Campaigner,
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"Sweetheart On Parade"
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And the people cheered
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Why I even saw a grown man break
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right down and cry
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And you know it was just a little while later
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That old E.A. Stuart died
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Verse 5
And the sun it is going
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down for Mister Bouie
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class of nineteen- two
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Oh mother country, I do love you
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Oh mother country, I do love you
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