| This is the story of a great man, a
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| Yeah they call him the Be Bop Kid, the Be Bop Kid, ooh
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| Be bop bop bop be bop bop
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| Be bop bop bop be bop bop
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| Be bop bop be bop bop be bop bop be bop bop
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| And y’kn-y'know what he did?
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| Yeah, he did something wrong
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| (Yeah, y’know what he did?
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| He did something wrong)
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| He wrote a song, y’know (A song about life)
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| Just a song, it was a song about life, yeah real life
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| Yeah, he did, yeah he sure did, man
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| (Be bop bop be bop bop be bop bop be bop bop
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| Be bop bop be bop bop be bop bop be bop bop)
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| And y’know what happened then? |
| Yeah, them others, man
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| They gave him a knife right across his face, man
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| They tried to take his life
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| Yeah, they put him in jail
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| They rode him on that damn rail
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| (, yeah he did)
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| (, yeah he did)
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| Be bop (He wrote a song, songs about life)
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| Be bop, ooh (Songs about life, yeah he did)
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| (Songs about life, songs about life, songs about life)
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| Ooh (Be Bop Kid, Be Bop Kid, Be Bop Kid, Be Bop Kid)
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| Yeah, but that kid, man (Ooh, Mmm)
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| He survived it all, man, because he’s tough, man (Be bop)
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| He’s been through it all, man
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| He wrote his songs, songs about life |