Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Understanding is the best
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Between a boy and a girl
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understand
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You know understanding
is a mighty powerful thing,
Verse 2
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When I see my friends wandering
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around through the world,
Never knowing the meaning of the word
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Understanding, so in the next few minutes,
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Try to explain just exactly what it means
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Now wait a minute, listen,
for instance, you take me
Verse 3
work and pay the rent and the
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Bills and buy her fine pretty
just waitin' round the
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that woman loves me,
She's gonna go out and find
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herself one of them who
Will and that's why I
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Understanding is the best thing in the world,
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Between a boy and a girl
Verse 4
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Boy and girl and even a
woman or a man,
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really understand
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Now listen I don't want
One sided affair, no no
Verse 5
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Catch her, because what I don't see can't hurt me,
you
If I should ever
names like you all might
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No no
Verse 6
Hardware store and buy myself
Come back, square off,
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and believe her soul's gonna
Belong to the good lord
Verse 7
and I
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Understanding is the best thing in the world,
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Between a boy and a girl
Verse 8
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Boy and girl and even a
woman or a man,
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you really understand
Outro 1
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