[00:00.96]First Born
[00:01.64]The silver spoon's in the mouth
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[00:04.85]Baby clothes are baby-blue
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[00:10.28]Nothing's ever handed down
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[00:13.53]Everything's brand new
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[00:20.51]Newspaper notices heralding that great event
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[00:31.31]Daddy's buddies send the flowers
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[00:34.38]Mother's friends have baby showers
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[00:37.24]Welcoming that Heaven sent
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[00:43.48]That first born son is always the one
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[00:49.47]The first to be called and the last to come
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[00:55.29]He's his mother's favorite,
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[00:58.41]his grandmother's too
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[01:01.03]He'll break their hearts and he'll break yours too
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[01:06.15]For he's the first to creep and the first to crawl
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[01:12.26]The first to walk and the first to fall
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[01:17.75]Every bruise is kissed,
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[01:20.52]every cry is heard
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[01:23.32]Every doubt's cast out with a soothing word
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[01:28.13]'Cause he's that first born son,
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[01:31.31]he's that special one
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[01:33.56]No matter what comes next,
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[01:36.37]no matter what comes along
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[01:39.61]Be it another boy or a sweet baby girl
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[01:45.28]The family's the oyster and he is the pearl
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[02:31.84]Some of them make it,
[02:34.39]some of them don't
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[02:37.08]Some of them can't,
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[02:39.76]others won't grow up
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[02:57.67]In the bible of old,
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[02:59.92]according to Exodus
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[03:02.47]Every first born son of a Jew got axed
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[03:08.09]But the one who survived with the help of God's hand
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[03:13.52]Led his people to the promised land
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[03:17.83]Yes he's that first born son,
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[03:20.70]he's that son of a gun
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[03:23.76]Just hates to walk,
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[03:25.75]just loves to run
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[03:28.31]He loves to run as fast as he can
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[03:33.86]With life held tight in the palm of his hand
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