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Cigarettes were a quarter then,
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bobby socks and jeans were in,
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Elvis sang the songs that we loved so,
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and the most important thing to us
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was keeping gas in my old truck,
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so I could take us to the drive-in show.
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Then graduation finally came,
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Uncle Sam called me away,
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you married someone else while I was gone,
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but I've kept your letter all these years
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and I can't help but shed a tear,
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when I read the words you wrote me years ago.
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Baby I'm yours, I'll love you always,
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I'm gonna stand by you until the end of time,
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remember all of the good things that we shared together
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signed, love Betty, nineteen fifty nine.
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I never will forget the day,
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when you and I went all the way,
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I was the first for you,
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and you for me,
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I've still got the truck that we loved in
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it takes me back there now and then,
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back to fifty nine in my memory.
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Baby I'm yours, I'll love you always,
Bb F C
I'm gonna stand by you until the end of time,
Bb F C
remember all of the good things that we shared together
Bb F C
signed, love Betty, nineteen fifty nine.