Intro-
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Once I was seven years old, my mama told me,
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"Go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely."
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Once I was seven years old
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It was a big big world, but we thought we were bigger
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Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker
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By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor
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Never rich so we were out to make that steady figure
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Once I was eleven years old, my daddy told me,
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"Go get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely."
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I always had that dream, like my daddy before me
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So I started writing songs, I started writing stories
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Something about that glory just always seemed to bore me
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'Cause only those I really love will ever really know me
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Once I was twenty years old, my story got told
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Before the morning sun, when life was lonely
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I only see my goals, I don't believe in failure
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'Cause I know the smallest voices, they can make it major
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I got my boys with me, at least those in favour
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And if we don't meet before I leave, I hope I'll see you laterBb Bb C D C Bb C D C Bb C D F C Bb
Once I was twenty years old, my story got told
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I was writing about everything I saw before me
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Once I was twenty years old
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Soon we'll be thirty years old, our songs have been sold
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We've traveled around the world and we're still roaming
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Soon we'll be thirty years old
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I'm still learning about life
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My woman brought children for me
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So I can sing them all my songs And I can tell them stories
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Most of my boys are with me
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Some are still out seeking glory
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And some I had to leave behind My brother, I'm still sorry
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Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one
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Remember life, and then your life becomes a better one
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I made a man so happy when I wrote a letter once
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I hope my children come and visit once or twice a month
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