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Verse 1
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There was a story in the
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Chronicle that, course, I forgot to say.
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It was about a lady who lived in the good old days,
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when a century was born and a century had died.
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And about those good old days,
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the old lady replied,
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Why, they were just a lot of people
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doing the best they could.
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Just a lot of people doing
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And then the lady said that they did it pretty
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up and walking good.
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Whatever happened to those
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faces in the old photographs?
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I mean the little boys, boys,
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hell, they were men
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Who stood knee -deep in the
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At the time of that terrible flood
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And they listened to the water
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That awful noise
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An d they put away the dreams
Little
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Boy
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And the sun is going down for
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Boo
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As he's singing with his class of 1902
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Oh, mother country, I do love you
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Oh, mother country,
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I do love you
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I knew a man named
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Stewart, spelled
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S -T -U -A -R -T,
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an d he owned some of the finest horsies that
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I think I'll ever see.
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And he had one favorite, a champion,
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the old campaigner,
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and he called her
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Parade.
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She was easily the finest
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horse that the good
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Lord ever made.
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Stewart, he was going blind.
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And he said, before I go,
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I've got to drive her one more time.
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So people came from miles around,
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and they stood around the ring.
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But no one said a word,
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no, no one said a thing.
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And here they come,
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Stewart in the wagon right behind.
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Sitting straight and proud,
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and he's driving her stone blind
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And would you look at her,
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oh she never looked finer or went better than today
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Stewart and the old campaigner,
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sweetheart on parade
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And the people cheered,
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why I even saw a grown man break right down and cry
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And you know it was just
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a little while later that old
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Stewart died
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And the sun is going down for
Mr.
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As he's singing with his class of 1902
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Oh, mother country, I do love you
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Oh, mother country,
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I do love you
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