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Introduction:
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Yes my granny is a cripple in Nashville
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This story I tell you is true
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One day, she went out on her wheelchair
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Never knowin' it had a loose screw
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Well a wheel came off of that wheelchair,
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friends
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And on three wheels it trundled away
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And it trundled right over the edge of a cliff
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In an old sea-side town, far away
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Now the boy who was pushin the wheelchair
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Was a little blind orphan called Joe
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And he said "Oh where is my granny?"
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"And where did that damn wheelchair go?"
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Well he ran off to search
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for that wheelchair, friends
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But his sightless eyes led him astray
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And he ran right over the edge of the cliff
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In that old sea-side town, far away
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Well somebody sent for a doctor
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And an ambulance too, it was called
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And the people who lived in the
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neighbourhood
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Stood around and they cried, how they bawled
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Well the doctor and the ambulance came rushing, friends
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They were rushing from two different ways
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And they crashed with a biff,
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and shot over the cliff
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In that old sea-side town, far away
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Well they sent for brave father Maloney
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To pray for the poor soles they pose
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And he said "Well now that we're gathered
here good people"
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"Well we might as well pray I suppose!"
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But, too many people had gathered
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And the edge of the cliff gave way
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And they dropped with a yell
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They all shot straight to hell
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In that old, sea-side town,
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so terribly far away
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