| Young and old and in between
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| Six or sixty or sixteen
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| When you think that fate has been unkind
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| 'Cause you haven’t many toys
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| Like some other girls and boys
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| Here’s a little rhyme worth remembering sometime
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| What makes life the sweetest
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| Bestest and completest?
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| Not a big doll house
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| Or a Mickey Mouse
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| But the right somebody to love
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| Ice cream, cake and candy
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| May be fine and dandy
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| But if you ask me there not one two three
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| With the right somebody to love
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| One you really care for
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| And is yours to have and keep;
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| One you say a pray’r for
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| In your «Now I lay me down to sleep»
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| Tho' you’re not quite seven
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| What is most like heaven?
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| It’s the joy that’s found
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| With your arms around
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| The right somebody to love
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| What makes life the sweetest
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| Bestest and completest?
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| Not what you and I
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| Can go out and buy
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| But the right somebody to love
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| You may have a bankful
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| For which to be thankful
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| Nothing you possess
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| Brings you happiness
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| Like the right somebody to love
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| One you really care for
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| And is yours to have and keep;
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| One you say a pray’r for
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| In your «Now I lay me down to sleep»
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| All the milk and honey
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| Pockets full of money
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| Cannot take the place of the sweet embrace
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| Of the right somebody to love |