Key: G major
Verse 1
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This is our street.
We did a lot of growing up
right here.
I've been kissed, kicked,
cussed and cuddled all in this one block.
I've laughed, cried,
ran and chased
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up and down this sidewalk.
See that yard over there?
I had my arm and my heart broken there.
The arm was about ten
years before the heart
and didn't hurt near as much.
I remember the heart so much better.
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Now that's where Nancy Clemmer
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lived.
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Nancy and I had been in love
since we were three years old.
And the winter we turned 16
when it came time for the high school Christmas
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dance boy.
I got excited I went out
rented a tuxedo
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bought a boutonniere a corsage
had it washed at all shine
except one thing do you believe
I forgot to ask Nancy?
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So there I stood on her front yard that night
and she went to the dance
with Eddie Franklin of all people
playing football
Now, Nancy and I go back a long way.
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along about the fourth or fifth grade,
over in Jennifer's yard.
and giggling,
the boys doing tricks on our bikes
and showing off.
And we'd always get our heads
together, though,
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and make big plans for special occasions.
and we told each other
how we were going to dress
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together.
Halloween night
with our bags and costumes
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down the street.
who was used to going everywhere I went,
fell right in to go too.
But I didn't want him tagging
along at night,
and I had to scold him pretty hard
and close the gate on him.
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this enormous old German shepherd
was for some reason loose on
Halloween night.
us.
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Everybody screamed
and took off running,
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but I felt him come in behind me,
and he grabbed
the old German shepherd
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grabbed me
and they went round and round
and you couldn't
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see anything but fur flying
the fur for the tears.
and I grabbed King and hugged him
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and we went home and both of us
sat on the front porch
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ever had.
I wouldn't trade it for all
the candy
that's where Betty Lee
Miller lived.
if we sat in the car for 30 seconds,
her mama would start
So we'd always walk up on the porch
and the light was on
There was no way I could ever kiss
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Betty goodnight
borhood watching.
So one night, I just reached up
and twisted the light
bulb till it went out.
and then I went home.
The next day Betty's mother
came out,
and changed the light bulb.
A few nights later,
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And the next day her mother said,
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I don't know what could be hap
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and she put a new one in .
And this happened about five or six times,
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and I certainly wasn't. And then I went
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and her daddy was on the front porch
and he was putting in a brand
new light fixture.
to either quit turning the light off
or quit turning Betty on.
The next fall she got engaged
The sights and sounds of this street
will always haunt me.
In the wintertime
everyone would be out
raking leaves.
mowing the grass or washing the cars.
The kids would walk to school together and at three,
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Em
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the quiet would be torn apart
with children's voices and
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laughter.
Daddies would come home at five
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and warm lights were in every kitchen
It was a time when people would walk or ride by and wave and
A time when people really
did go next door
A time when sitting
on the front porch
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Mo m and Daddy in the glider
and my sister in the swing
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and me on the front steps.
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And on just about any summer evening,
you could hear Shirley Jean Burrell
and Charlotte Thompson
and they would be in
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the swing
on Charlotte's front porch.
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Em
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You could hear that old swing creaking
and I guess they only knew
the harmony to one song,
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but they sang that one every evening.
That old swing would creak
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lotte were singing.
God, if only I could be little again.
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Tell me why the stars do shine
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Tell me why the ivy thrives
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Tell me why the ocean's blue
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And I will tell you just why I love you
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Because God made the stars to shine
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Because God made the ivy twine
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Because God made the ocean blue
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Because God made you,
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that's why I love you
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Because God made the stars to shine
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Because God made the ivy twine
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Because God made the
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ocean blue
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