Tonalidad: A minor
Verse 1
Bbm
What is happening?
What is up?
Things sure are different
Ab
than when I was a pup.
Five dollar hot dogs,
strange fancy beers,
young skinny boys with their pants
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below their rears,
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young pretty girls who cov
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Abm
er up their hair,
bearded lumberjacks
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everywhere.
Nowadays things aren't
what they used to be.
Ab
You don't see all the things
you used to see.
This wasn't what the place was meant to be.
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I feel like I'm living in another century.
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B
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Not sure if it's a new or an old one.
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A modest or a bold one.
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Maybe I'll move to that
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place on the shore.
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Db
Abm
Not sure I can take this place anymore.
Bbm
But I'm not sure about the
sound of the sea
Fm
That's the kind of thing
that could really get to me
Bbm
Call me a curmudgeon,
call me a nuisance
When I was a boy,
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a hot dog cost a few cents
A jar of pickles cost a dollar and a half
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Now I see a jar for ten,
don't make me laugh
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B
What did you say?
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B
It's artisanal?
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Abm
What does that mean?
It's medicinal?
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Bbm
When I was a young man
there were like three beers,
now there are breweries
Ab
coming out your ears.
Every bar I step into has another
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micro -brew.
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B
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Hearty lager, frothy ale,
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Gb
muddy brown or deadly pale.
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Maybe I should go down
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the 95 corridor,
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move in with my sister
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down in Florida.
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Sit in swelter in tropical heat
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Fm
All the people down there,
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they don't know how to eat
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An d what's with those kids
and the crazy things they wear?
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Young pretty girls
with scarves on their hair
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Don't they know that's
their prettiest part?
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The best way to reach a
young man's heart
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And these boys on skateboards
with hats and sunglasses
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Loose -fitting jeans
that sag below their asses
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I can't think of nothing more obnoxious
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Than the sight of a teen
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ager's boxers
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Maybe I'll stay with my
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son on Long Island
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There at least the streets are silent
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But what would I do?
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How would I keep?
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It's too quiet there,
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how would I sleep?
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Now don't get me started
on the guys with bushy beards
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That's a look that I find a little weird
Every guy's a mix
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of Paul Bunyan and Walt Whitman
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It's enough to make me
want to call a hitman
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B
Like we used to do in the good old days
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There was nothing wrong
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with the good old days
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I'm too old to change,
don't tell me I'm not
I'll just sit here in my shady spot
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On my bench here by the park
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Abm
Where I've always left my mark
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And who knows,
maybe I'll exchange a couple sneers
With the skinny kids with their
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pants below their rears
Smile at the Muslim girls
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and sweet young dears
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Try me one of them fancy beers
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Say how are you to a passing lumberjack
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See if he might say how are you back
Decide things aren't quite as bad as I feared
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But I won't, won't, won't, won't,
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won't, won't, won't
Forget about it
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Grow a beard
Outro 1
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