Tonart: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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By the time I was thirteen
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I started taking shape.
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At eighteen I was so beautiful
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That the strangers started to gape.
Verse 2
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the ultimate contest
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If you're as gorgeous
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as you seem."
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They said "Please, please, please
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Be our American dream."
Verse 3
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late that night beneath
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There's a dazzling sight in my motel room
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For a grunting judge with his bulging eyes
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I give my all for his cher
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Verse 4
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Oh why, oh why?
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I'm Miss America
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Silver clad in satin rags,
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But everything's where it should be
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Oh say can you see,
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ah say can you see.
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After
Verse 5
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they
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showed me the game ball
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They told me put on weight.
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They told me I'd be powerful
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They told me I'd be great.
Verse 6
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Uncle Sam he would coach me
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His helmet on my head
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And they said "Please,
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please please, please
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Please win and beat the spread."
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But the new game plan that the
owners had made
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there would be a trade.
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For the team's become a real gold mine
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And the kid's sold off for the
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Verse 8
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Oh why, oh why?
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Sweating on TV
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The winner's joy from the battered boy
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For everything's where it should be
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Oh say can you see,
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ah say can you see.
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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At last we've come together
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Call it marriage or civil war.
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If it brings us to battle, babe
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It must be worth our fighting for.
Verse 10
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Though today came up cloudy
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There will be other days.
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"Ah, please, please, please,
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please
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What else is there to say?"
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But in plywood spread
By a plastic stream
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And in separate beds with
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And with questions wide
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and the silence deep
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We take two pills so
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at last we'll sleep.
Verse 12
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Oh why, oh why?
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Mr. and Mrs. America
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Our story's on TV
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Can you hear canned laughter
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For everything's where it should be
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Oh say can you see,
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Verse 13
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Well, my little boy he
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told me something
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Just the other night.
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He whispered it as I kissed him
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Before I turned out the light.
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he said it simple
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As only children can
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He said "Daddy, daddy,
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daddy, please
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I'm ready to dream again."
Outro 1
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