Brighton Beach    (video)    (clip)

 

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1. I remember when you were only seventeen,

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    you were the finest girl that my eyes had ever seen.

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    I guess you found it hard to simply just ignore

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    this scruffy beat up working class teenage troubadour.

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    So we fell in love and I toured your heart with my out of tune guitar,

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    you were wonderful you were mystical and the envy of all of my friends.

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    Seems like only yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach.

 

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2. Oh, what a time it was, what a time to be alive !

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    Remember Janice and Jimmy. Kennedy and King how they cried.

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    I sang to you the songs of Ramblin' Jack,

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    you were Greta Garbo and I was Karolac.

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    And we played so hard and we loved so hard,

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    seemed we never ever slept,

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    they were crazy days they were wonderful days,

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    and I loved you with all of my heart.

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    Seems like only yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach.

 

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+  Your daddy had plans that did not include me,

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    and he won't stay away from your door.

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    And I dreamed how I dreamed I could steal you away

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    to some far off distant shore.

 

 

 

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3. Then early one morning I awoke to find you gone,

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    you wrote, 'I love you, baby, but it's time for me to move on'.

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    And so my teenage heart laid scattered on the floor,

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    I swear to God I could not have loved you anymore.

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    And as I sit here tonight playing with my kids

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    wondering where you are in this world.

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    Did you find your man are you happy now ?

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    Do you ever stop and think about me ?

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    Oh, how I long for yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach !

 

    (Rod Stewart)