Poem on the school house door chords by The soul children

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Verse 1
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Not long ago, the Soul Children
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decided to go back home
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And when we got there,
we found the old neighborhood
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where we grew up wasn't there anymore
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And the old field
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where we played ball after school
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The railroad has made it a
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freight yard now
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But since we were there,
we felt it was a good time
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to look up some of our old friends.
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But the old gang,
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they're not around no more,
cause time has brought
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about a change.
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But we just couldn't leave without
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visiting the old school
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where we once had attended.
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And when we got there, oh, Anita,
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won't you tell them what we found?
You know, I was disappointed
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when we got there,
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because we found a condemned sign
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hanging on the door. Yes, we did.
Weeds had covered the campus,
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and we noticed a few
when the panes had been
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broken here and there.
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And, oh, my mind,
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my mind began to drift back
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to the many, many times
I stood on that old campus
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and sung the school alma mater,
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and it was there, yeah,
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Lord have mercy,
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I felt it was there, oh, yeah,
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that I met my first love.
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I remember, Anita,
we had an old custom thing
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that the graduating class
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would always leave something to be remembered
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by those who were coming on behind us.
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My old friend Norman left a trophy
to be remembered.
Oh, yes, he did.
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And you left honorary records
to be remembered.
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Oh, yeah.
And I left a citation
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as being the best majorette of the year,
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yeah.
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But you know what, children?
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I wasn't able to leave a toll.
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And I wasn't able to leave
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a honorary record.
And I didn't leave a citation of achievement.
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But at the time, oh, I was in love.
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I decided that I would leave
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something a little different,
and this is what I left.
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I left a poem on the school house door.
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A poem on the school house door.
And the girl that I wrote this poem to
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is not around anymore, no, no.
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After graduation day,
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she went her separate way in life and I went mine,
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and I'm glad today that when I wrote this poem,
I wrote two copies.
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One on the schoolhouse door, my lord,
and one embedded
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deep down in my heart.
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But the one that I wrote in my, my, my, my, my,
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my, my, my heart is still there, oh yeah
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And this is what it said, children, ooh,
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I want you to listen to it one time, listen
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Sugar is sweet, honey is too
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But neither one is as sweet as you
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These few words, just to let you know
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You are the one that I  love so
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A poem on the schoolhouse door
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A poem on the schoolhouse door
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A poem on the schoolhouse door
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