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I'm gonna try to be that way |
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Once upon a time there lived a man |
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Many years ago in a foreign land |
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Knew how to live right, tried to be a light |
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Gave everybody a helping hand |
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I'm gonna try to be that way |
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I'm gonna try to be that way |
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Do the kind of things a man oughta do |
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Say the kind of things a man oughta say |
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I'm gonna try to be that way |
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He never done anybody wrong |
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He tried to help everybody 'long |
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He brought a better land to make a better man |
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Out of the rich or the poor |
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Or the weak or the strong |
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And he preached love and brotherhood |
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He went around doin' good, doin' good |
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Everywhere he went |
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They knew that he was sent |
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And the people started actin' like they should |
