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There's a fly in the window |
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A dog in the yard |
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And a year since I saw you |
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There's a trunk in the corner |
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I keep all my letters |
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My bills and demands I keep too |
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Well I can't help thinking |
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About the times |
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You were a wife of mine |
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You aimed to please me |
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Cooked black-eyed peas-me |
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Made elderberry wine |
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Drunk all the time |
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Feeling fine on elderberry wine |
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Those were the days |
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We'd lay in the haze |
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Forget depressive times |
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How can I ever get it together |
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Without a wife in line |
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To pick the crop and get me hot |
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On elderberry wine |
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Round a tree in the summer |
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A fire in the fall |
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Flat out when they couldn't stand |
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The bottle went round |
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Like a woman down south |
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Passed on from hand to hand |
