Key: Ab major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Every
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one knows him as old folks
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Like the seasons he'll come
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and he'll go
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Just as free as a bird,
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and as good as his word
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That's why everybody
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loves him so
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Put s his napkin
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up under his chin
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An d that yellow car pipe,
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it's so mellow it's ripe,
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be ashamed of him.
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In the evening af
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ter supper,
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what stories he would tell.
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How he held a speech at Gettysburg
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for Lincoln that day.
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I know that one so well,
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don't quite understand
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about old folks,
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did he fight
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for he's so diplomat
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ic and so democratic
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we always let him have
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his way.
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old folks.
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What a sad old town this will be.
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Children's voices at play
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will be still for a day.
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The day they take old folks
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The day they take old folks away.
Outro 1
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