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Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times |
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She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes |
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Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind |
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And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind |
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I realized that Illinois was more than I could stand |
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They say working's best cause poverty is hell on a man |
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Now I ride a lazy river through the Mississippi fan |
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And if the best is for the best then the best can be damned |
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I spent a few years on the Queen of Spain |
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She was a leaky little boat that went up in flames |
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When the boiler blew some people started naming names |
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But if the best is for the best I guess the best is to blame |
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I spent a few more as the Cairo Crown |
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A heavyweight wrestler in the Midwest towns |
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But I was lonesome for a girl who could pin me down |
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They say the best is for the best but that's not what I've found |
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Now I listen to my sweetheart and I listen to my thirst |
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I don't spend time listening to other people's words |
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Sometimes they're right most times the reverse |
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They say the best is for the best when the best's for the worse |
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Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times |
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She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes |
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Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind |
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And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind |
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Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times |
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Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times |