If I gave you pretty flowers If I took you out to dinner If we walked home by the river Would you invite me here? If we sat down on the sofa If I told
When you said, "Good-bye," I thought I would cry Or at least feel a dark that's a deep shade of blue. I would have to attend to a heart on the mend,
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Daddy played the banjo 'neath the yellow tree It rang across the backyard, an old time melody I loved to hear the music, I was only five I listened as
woke up this mornin, clock said I was late for school, teacher told me "that's not cool" gotta put my shirt and pants on, flew down the front stair