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Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin |
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Spelled backwards |
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Really're closin' up the gap Airegin |
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Gone fac'wards |
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Back long time ago they saw a ghost |
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Ghost made a boast |
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Soon that ghost was host |
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Repeat first 8 bars |
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Those losing their hue |
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They goofed 'n got the wrong view |
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First things reverse last is first |
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Y' dig it |
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Whatta' y' think o'that'n get a load a' |
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What I tell y' |
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What this place is no one knows it |
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There's no traces of the kind o'place it was |
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Before it got discovered by the kind o' |
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Cat that knows the earth belongs t'him |
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Back when the world was young |
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An' man was a living god |
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An' he walked this earthly sod |
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This was sod that god would trod on |
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Till one day a stranger landed |
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With a line o'jive |
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Laid it on the natives till he had 'em thinkin' |
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Maybe that they should really take five |
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An' he quickly stole the natives' soul |
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So he could control it |
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An' he took care of that missionary biz |
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Till the lan' was his |
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Never heard a story draggy as that |
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Tell th' truth I ain't never heard another |
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That exasperated more |
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What an exasperating narrative t'play |
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Upon the sensitive and kindly soul that I am |
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'Way back when I was crawlin' in m'crib |
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I was doin' all kinds o'thinkin' |
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Aw'ready I had figured out the 'cut of m'jib' |
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The kind o'soul that never liked t'tell 'r live a fib |
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A body who was steadily reachin' up |
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A min' always thinkin' on high minded things |
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Whee I was always one t'be free |
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Ain't never had a keeper why don't people |
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Learn t'git along t'gether stead o' |
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Meddlin' aroun' 'n fussin' with the fella nearest to 'em |
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Me I'm the old fashioned kind |
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I was never good at follow the leader |
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Real real real real real real real |
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That's me as real as a Yankee can be |
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That's me |
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Millions o' years ago |
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There was a Paleolithic age on Earth |
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An' the whole world was young |
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And full o'the vim of constant rebirth |
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Brontosauruses 'n dinosaurs 'n pterodactyls |
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Ever'where abounding that was the case |
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'N plus the millions o' mammoths here 'n there |
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An' in addition there were lots o'men everywhere |
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Who had no hi tech and no intellect 'nary a speck |
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But in that spot |
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Where it was so lush where it was so hot |
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Where many animal was roamin' |
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An' nature was kind life was thrivin' |
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There livin' was actual an' the feelin' was natural |
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I'm tellin' the truth |
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What a benign livin' some livin' |
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All's forgiven come on home |
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Blew a truly unruly storm |
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That wrecked a boat in a climate warm |
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'N full o'ashy colored cats all lookin' |
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White like ghosts |
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'N when the natives checked 'em out |
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It blew 'em away t'find that they resembled spirits |
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Long ago there was a legend |
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'Bout a spirit who would someday come |
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A look at these cats |
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'N y' could see they prob'ly had some |
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So they welcomed 'em with peace and love |
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And everything there's plenty of |
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'N soon the tables had turned to rigormortis |
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That's when the castaway had his say |
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Like a dog had his day they told the |
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People that they were spirits actual |
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Y'see how perfectly a fable c'n be |
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Incorporated into what a cat'll think is factual |
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What was an accident turns int' something |
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So unbelievably heaven sent |
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Everybody falls for it |
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Right on down t' the militants |
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'N marchin' 'n the martyrs 'n the murder of Lumumba |
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Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin |
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Spelled backwards |
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Really're closin' up the gap Airegin |
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Gone fac'wards |
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Back long time ago they saw a ghost |
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Ghost made a boast |
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Soon that ghost was host |
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Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin |
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Spelled backwards |
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Really're closin' up the gap Airegin |
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Gone fac'wards |
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Those losing their hue |
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They goofed 'n got the wrong view |
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First things reverse last is first |
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Y' dig it |
