| Grandpa Campbell would sit upon his front porch
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| And I’d be right there just sittin' on his knee
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| He’d tell stories of love and feast and famine
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| And I’d hang onto every word that he would breathe
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| He’d say, 'Boy as you walk through this life
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| Here’s a little wisdom that’ll help you get by?
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| You gotta live and learn, you gotta crash and burn
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| You gotta make some stances and take some chances
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| You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give
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| You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live
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| Though I left home and I went to Carolina
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| I then set off just to see what I could see
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| I did some things that I wasn’t really proud of
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| And sometimes life just got the best of me
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| But I’d always think back to those days
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| And I know what Grandpa Campbell would say
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| He’d say you gotta live and learn, you gotta crash and burn
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| You gotta make some stances and take some chances
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| You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give
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| You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live, yeah, oh oh
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| After years of runnin' 'round and searchin'
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| I found me a woman who loves me just for me
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| All those mistakes I thought that I was makin'
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| Led me right here to ya sittin' on my knees
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| Son as you walk through this life
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| Here’s a little wisdom that’ll help you get by
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| You gotta live and learn, you gotta crash and burn
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| You gotta make some stances, you gotta take some chances
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| You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give
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| You gotta live and learn, you gotta live and learn
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| So you can learn to live, learn to live |