Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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used to take us down
to the ice skating show
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when the Blackhawks were on the roll,
we would
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Am
Who would spin on the frozen spray
But there was one moment
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in that whole spectacular show
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Old smoothies to old people on skates
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doing the figure eights,
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They had been the old smoothies
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for a long, long time.
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Where did they get the stamina
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How did they stay in shape
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I know that that took a lion's share
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of the liniment, pride, and tape.
My grandparents smiled
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as the smoothies would
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glide and peer away.
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and Grandma's eyes got wet.
the smoothies,
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circled the ice and bowed.
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That must have been twenty years ago,
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but I can see it now.
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Old smoothies to old people on skates
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Sequenced septuagenarians
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who were doing their figure eights
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so serene and sublime
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They had been the old smoothies
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for a long, long time
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They had been the old smoothies
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for a long, long time.
Thanks for coming tonight, folks.
Thanks for coming to this
benefit concert.
David Amran, Hugh McDonald,
Corky Siegel,
and Jethro Burns.
Thank Yeah! Woo! Woo!
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