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Life is Just a Tire Swing
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Jimmy Buffett
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I remember the smell of the creosote plant,
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When we'd have to eat on Easter with my
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Crazy old uncle and aunt.
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They lived in a big house Ante Bellum style,
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And the wind would blow across the old bayou,
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And I was a tranquil little child.
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Life was just a tire swing.
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'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing.
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Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken,
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And I never knew a thing about pain.
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Life was just a tire swing.
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In a few summers my folks packed me off to camp;
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Yeah, me and my cousin' Baxter
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In our pup tent with a lamp.
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And in a few days Baxter went home,
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And he left me by myself.
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And I knew that I'd stay, it was better that way,
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And I could get along without any help.
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Life was just a tire swing.
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And I've never been west of New Orleans
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Nor east of Pensacola.
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My only contact with the outside
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World was a RCA Victrola.
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Elvis would sing and then I'd dream about
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Expensive cars, and who would've figured twenty
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Years later I'd be rubbing shoulders with the stars.
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Life was just a tire swing.
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'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing.
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Chasin' after sparrows with rubber tip arrows,
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Knowin' I could never hurt a thing,
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And life was just a tire swing.
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Then the other morning on some Illinois road
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I fell asleep at the wheel,
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But was quickly wakened up by a 'Ma Bell'
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Telephone pole, and a bunch of Grant Wood
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Faces screaming, 'Is he still alive?'
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But through the window could see
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It hangin' from a tree, and I knew
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I had survived.
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Life was just a tire swing.
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Jambalaya's still the best song that I can sing.
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Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken,
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And I finally learned a lot about pain,
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'cause life is just a tire swing.
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