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Introduction:
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I work down at Ashbury Hills,
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Minimum wage but it pays the bills
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Cleaning floors, and leading hyms on sunday.
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Katherine Davis room 303,
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Sweetest soul you ever could meet.
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I bring her morning coffee everyday.
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She calls me Raymond. She thinks I'm her son,
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tells me get washed up for supper
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till your daddy gets home.
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She goes on about the weather and how she can't believe it's already 1943.
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She calls me Raymond, and that's alright by me
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She talks about clothes on the line the summer air,
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Christmas morning and Thanksgiving prayer and stories of the family that I never had.
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Well sometimes I find myself wishing I'd been there
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She calls me Raymond. She thinks I'm her son,
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tells me get washed up for supper
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for your daddy gets home.
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She goes on about the weather and how she can't believe it's already 1943.
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She calls me Raymond, and that's alright by me
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There's a small white cross in Arlington, reads Raymond Davis '71.
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Until she can see his face again, I'm gonna fill in the best I can
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When she calls me Raymond. She thinks I'm her son,
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tells me get washed up for supper
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for your daddy gets home.
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She goes on about the weather and how she can't believe it's already 1943.
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She calls me Raymond, and that's alright by me
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She calls me Raymond,
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that's alright by me.