| Take it like a man they said
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| Take your medicine
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| Find a golden road and stand
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| Then I saw exactly what they meant
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| Find my homeboys on the dusky road
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| Who couldn’t give a should about their life
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| Heed their words of faded brown
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| Then live it and sing about their strife
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| Then bring your song to the river at sunrise
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| Sing that song 'til the river runs clean
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| It will happen to you
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| As its happened to me
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| Won’t you sing that lovely song for me
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| It’s alright mama
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| Let your children be loud
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| Watch them run into trouble
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| So they can figure it out
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| We spread our seeds far 'cross this land
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| Hoping they’d fall on good ground
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| A vaccination in the sun and rain shine
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| And take a good long hard look around
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| Then bring your song to the river at sunrise
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| Sing that song 'til the river runs clean
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| It will happen to you
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| As its happened to me
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| Come clean with me
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| It’s alright mama
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| Let your children be loud
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| Watch them run into trouble
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| Cause trouble’s their medicine
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| Mama take your medicine |