Tonalidad: G major
Verse 1
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This is our street.
We did a lot of growing up
right here.
I've been kissed, kicked,
cussed and cuddled all in this one block.
I've laughed, cried,
ran and chased
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up and down this sidewalk.
See that yard over there?
I had my arm and my heart broken there.
The arm was about ten
years before the heart
and didn't hurt near as much.
I remember the heart so much better.
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Now that's where Nancy Clemmer
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lived.
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Nancy and I had been in love
since we were three years old.
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Had grown up together.
And the winter we turned 16
when it came time for the high school Christmas
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dance boy.
I got excited I went out
rented a tuxedo
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bought a boutonniere a corsage
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Asked daddy for the car
had it washed at all shine
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that boy look good
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I remember to do everything
except one thing do you believe
I forgot to ask Nancy?
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So there I stood on her front yard that night
and she went to the dance
with Eddie Franklin of all people
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And oh, by the way,
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ten years before that,
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it was Nancy who broke my arm
playing football
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in that very same yard.
Now, Nancy and I go back a long way.
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We walk to school...
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Every evening after school,
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along about the fourth or fifth grade,
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we would all gather
over in Jennifer's yard.
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The girls doing cartwheels
and giggling,
the boys doing tricks on our bikes
and showing off.
And we'd always get our heads
together, though,
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and make big plans for special occasions.
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It was nearing Halloween,
and we told each other
how we were going to dress
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and what we were going to be
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and decided we'd all go trick -or -treating
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together.
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So about half a dozen of us took off
Halloween night
with our bags and costumes
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down the street.
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And my dog, King,
who was used to going everywhere I went,
fell right in to go too.
But I didn't want him tagging
along at night,
and I had to scold him pretty hard
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and almost drag him back to the backyard
and close the gate on him.
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We hadn't gone ten houses
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down the street
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when old Blackie,
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this enormous old German shepherd
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that we were all scared to death of,
was for some reason loose on
Halloween night.
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He came out from between two houses
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heading straight toward
us.
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Everybody screamed
and took off running,
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and I was so scared I froze.
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I never did see King,
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but I felt him come in behind me,
and he grabbed
the old German shepherd
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just before the old German shepherd
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grabbed me
and they went round and round
and you couldn't
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see anything but fur flying
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an d I couldn't see
the fur for the tears.
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Old Blackie ran home yelping
and I grabbed King and hugged him
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and we went home and both of us
sat on the front porch
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and watched the trick -or
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-treaters come and go
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till mama turned the porch light off
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and said it was time to go to bed.
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It was the best Halloween I
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ever had.
I wouldn't trade it for all
the candy
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Two houses down from the corner,
that's where Betty Lee
Miller lived.
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And when I'd take her home at night,
if we sat in the car for 30 seconds,
her mama would start
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blinking the porch light.
So we'd always walk up on the porch
and the light was on
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and glaring right in our faces.
There was no way I could ever kiss
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Betty goodnight
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without the whole neigh
borhood watching.
So one night, I just reached up
and twisted the light
bulb till it went out.
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We laughed, kissed,
and then I went home.
The next day Betty's mother
came out,
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checked the switch,
and changed the light bulb.
A few nights later,
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the same thing happened.
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And the next day her mother said,
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I don't know what could be hap
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pening with these light bulbs,
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and she put a new one in .
And this happened about five or six times,
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and of course Betty wasn't
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about to tell her what was going on,
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and I certainly wasn't. And then I went
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to pick Betty Lee up one evening,
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and her daddy was on the front porch
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with a ladder and a tool belt
and he was putting in a brand
new light fixture.
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I decided then it was time
to either quit turning the light off
or quit turning Betty on.
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Unfortunately I did both.
The next fall she got engaged
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and moved to New York State.
The sights and sounds of this street
will always haunt me.
In the wintertime
everyone would be out
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shoveling snow off the sidewalk.
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In the fall, they'd be
raking leaves.
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And in the spring and summer,
mowing the grass or washing the cars.
The kids would walk to school together and at three,
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the quiet would be torn apart
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and the street would come alive again
with children's voices and
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laughter.
Daddies would come home at five
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and warm lights were in every kitchen
It was a time when people would walk or ride by and wave and
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you'd speak whether you knew them or not.
A time when people really
did go next door
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and borrow a cup of sugar.
A time when sitting
on the front porch
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was a special time of the evening,
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boy, people back then
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could really sit on the front porch.
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Mo m and Daddy in the glider
and my sister in the swing
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and me on the front steps.
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And on just about any summer evening,
you could hear Shirley Jean Burrell
and Charlotte Thompson
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across the street singing.
and they would be in
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the swing
on Charlotte's front porch.
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Em
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You could hear that old swing creaking
and I guess they only knew
the harmony to one song,
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but they sang that one every evening.
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We'd get quiet and listen.
That old swing would creak
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and Shirley Jean and Char
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lotte were singing.
God, if only I could be little again.
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Tell me why the stars do shine
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Tell me why the ivy thrives
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Tell me why the ocean's blue
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And I will tell you just why I love you
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Because God made the stars to shine
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Because God made the ivy twine
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Because God made the ocean blue
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Because God made you,
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that's why I love you
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Because God made the stars to shine
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Because God made the ivy twine
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Because God made the
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ocean blue
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Because God made you,
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that's why I love you.
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