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I Can't Write Left Handed
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The Roots
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I can't write left-handed.
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Would you please write a letter to my mother?
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Tell her to tell-tell her to tell the family lawyer.
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Yeah I'm trying to get a deferment for my younger brother.
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Tell the Reverend Harris to pray for me.
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Lord, lord, lord.
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Said I ain't gonna live
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Ain't gonna live to get much older.
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Strange little man over here in Vietnam
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I ain't I ain't never seen,
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Bless his heart, ain't never done nothing to,
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He done shot me in my shoulder
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Oh, in my shoulder
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Lord, lord, yeah
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Boot camp we had classes, yeah, yeah
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You know we talked about fighting-fighting everyday, yeah
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And looking through rosy rosy colored glasses, oh yeah
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I must admit it seemed exciting anyway.
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Something they overlooked to tell me, yeah
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The bullets look better, I must say
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Brother-brother when they're not coming at you, yeah
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Than going out the other way
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So please call up the Reverend Harris.
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(call up the Reverend Harris)
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Tell him to ask the Lord to do
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Some good things for me, yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Tell him I ain't gonna live,
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I ain't gonna live,
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I ain't gonna live to get much older, yeah
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Strange little man over here in Vietnam
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I ain't I ain't never seen
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Bless his heart
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I ain't never done nothing to,
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He done shot me in my shoulder.
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In my shoulder
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Shot me in my shoulder, yeah yeah
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Strange little man over here in Vietnam
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I ain't I ain't never seen
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Bless his heart
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I ain't never done nothing to,
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He done shot me in my shoulder.
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In my shoulder,
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Lord in my shoulder
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Lord they shot me in my shoulder
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Oh Lord, Lord
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I can't write left handed.
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Oh Lord
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Oh Lord,
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Yeah yeah yeah
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Yeah yeah
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Oh Lord
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Oh Lord
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Yeah yeah
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Yeah, yeah
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In my shoulder
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Shot me in my shoulder
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They shot me in my shoulder
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I can't I can't Lord, yeah yeah
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Yeah, oh yeah,
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Oh Lord,
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Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
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Yeah
Bill Withers - I Can't Write Left Handed
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