| His life is that blue bike, ball glove an' fishin' pole,
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| Tree-house, baby gun and band aid covered knees.
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| He does good deliverin' papers,
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| An' cuttin' grass for the neighbours,
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| Except for Widow Wilson: he cuts hers for free.
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| His little hands do a lot for a kid his age,
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| He puts one-tenth of his hard earned money,
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| In the orphan plate each Sunday by his own choice.
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| There’s a lotta man in that little boy.
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| Weekdays, he tries to sleep late:
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| Weekends, he’s up at daybreak.
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| Him an' Roy wadin' in Cotton Creek.
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| That dog was like his brother:
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| You’d seen one, you’d see the other.
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| Cut one an' both of them would bleed.
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| Tires screamed, but that ol' truck couldn’t stop.
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| There’s the tree that he buried him under;
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| He made a cross from scraps of lumber,
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| An' on a card: «God Bless ol' Roy.»
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| There’s a lotta man in that little boy.
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| There’s a house, down where he goes fishin':
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| He told his Mom: «Those kids got nothin',
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| «And I don’t need all these toys.»
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| There’s a lotta man.
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| (There's a lotta man. There’s a lotta man.)
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| In that little boy. |