Cherry Bomb
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1. Well, I lived on the outskirts of town,
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in an eight-room
farmhouse, baby,
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when
my brothers and friends were around,
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there
was always something doin’.
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Had me a couple of real nice girl friends,
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stopped
by to see me once in a while,
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when I think back
about those days,
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all I
can do is sit and smile.
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That’s when a sport was sport,
and groovin’ was groovin’,
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and dancin’ meant everything, we were young and we were improvin’.
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Laughin’,
laughin’ with our friends, holdin’
hands meant something, baby,
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outside
the club Cherry Bomb our hearts
were really thumpin’,
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say yeah, yeah, yeah, say yeah, yeah, yeah.
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2. The winter days, they last
forever,
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but
the weekends went by so quick,
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went ridin’ around this little country town,
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we
were goin’ nuts, girl, out in the sticks.
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One night me with
my big mouth,
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a
couple guys had to put me in my place,
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when I see those
guys these days,
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we
just laugh and say : Do you remember when ?
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+ Yeah yeah yeah ! Yeah yeah yeah !
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3. Now seventeen has turned thirty-five,
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I’m surprised that we’re still
livin’,
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if
we’ve done any wrong,
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I hope that we’re forgiven.
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Got a few kids of
my own,
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and
some days I still don’t know what to do,
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I hope that they’re not laughin’ too loud,
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when
they hear me talkin’ like this to you.
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(John Cougar Mellencamp)