Key: B
Introduction: Bb
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When I was just a little boy, so high, a pretty
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little girl came dancing by.
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She said, hello to me, and smiled so tenderly..
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and asked me what's my name.
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And she wore petticoat white and summer sky blue.
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The sweetest little thing I ever, ever knew.
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Petticoat white and summer sky blue..the sweetest
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little thing, I ever knew.
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I never will forget the early years..the way we shared
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the laughter and the tears.
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And our first precious kiss..oh, how I clung to this..
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when she moved away.
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And she wore petticoat white and summer sky blue.
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The sweetest little thing I ever, ever knew.
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Petticoat white and summer sky blue..the sweetest
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little thing, I ever knew.
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Some..day, I'll marry and I'll settle down..I'll see my
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girl there in her wedding gown.
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It will recall to me, our childhood memory..as she walks
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down the aisle.
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Cause she'll wear, petticoat white and summer sky blue.
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The sweetest little thing I ever, ever knew.
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Petticoat white and summer sky blue..the sweetest little
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thing I ever knew.
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Cause she wore petticoat white and summer sky blue.
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The sweetest little thing I ever, ever knew..
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.