| Well they took me home in the back of a checker cab
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| After somebody took a chair cross the back of my head
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| My mama said bring him on in And when they told her where I’d been she said
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| Well mama never said a word as she patched my head
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| I figured she wasn’t happy with me gettin' her out of bed
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| I said mama I hope you ain’t mad
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| She said come on we’re going back hey
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| What a world it would be If we could all just have fun
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| 'Cause it don’t do nobody right
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| When it comes down to a fight hey
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| Now when I got trouble ain’t no one I’d rather have
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| Than my mama next to me with a broken bottle in her hand
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| She went in swingin' and when she got through
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| Everybody saw her point of view she said
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| What a world it would be If we could all just have fun
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| 'Cause it don’t do nobody right
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| When it comes down to a fight hey
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| Well now things don’t always run smooth in a honky tonk
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| And some nights somebody’s gonna rub somebody wrong
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| And in those isolated incidents
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| We all loose our common sense hey
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| Why can’t people just get along
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| What a world it would be If we could all just have fun
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| 'Cause it don’t do nobody right
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| When it comes down to a fight hey
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| Why can’t people just get along |