| Electric chair didn’t burn a hair
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| And the newspaperman asked why
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| And while the warden explain in great detail
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| The newsman looked in the sky
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| «i'm sure!», he said, «if you look a little deeper
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| For something in his life
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| We could understand the reason why
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| He reached out for a knife.»
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| Oooh! |
| what happened to the promise?
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| Oooh! |
| what happened to the one we knew?
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| So, onto a a train the newspaperman rode
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| Down to the southern lands
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| To find out about a child long gone
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| Turned into a lightning man
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| Oooh! |
| what happened to the promise?
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| Oooh! |
| what happened to the one we knew?
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| Oooh! |
| what happened to the promise?
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| Oooh! |
| what happened to the heart so true
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| «some of them make it through», she said
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| «some of them never do, and one of them
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| Got lost in time -- that child of mine
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| Oh, I loved that child of mine!»
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| Arriving in a country town
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| With a notepad in his hand
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| He spoke to the mother and the father
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| And a friend and a teacher and a preacher man
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| They all recalled a regular boy chewing gim
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| And playing in the sand
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| Nothing could explain how he became
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| A lonely lightning man
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| And when the coffin came
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| On the southbound train
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| And the old folks shuffled by
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| The one they came to bury
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| Was not very heavy, just a child lost in time
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| What happens to the clear blue eye
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| When it enters the forest?
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| Does anybody know where the little one goes?
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| What happens to the child in time?
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| -- some of them make it through
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| -- some of them never do
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| -- some of them are lost and saved
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| -- some of them find their way
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| Oooh -- hold on to the promise
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| We’re going to make it through my baby
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| We’re going to make it through my little darling |