Tono: G
Introducción:
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I was just a young boy but I remember well,
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The red and green streamers flyin outside the Everleigh Hotel,
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Skinning hearts and knees on a tacked down lino floor,
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We were walking through the twilight the day John Sattler broke his jaw.
We lived eight to a house on Hugo Street in Menzies land of plenty,
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And it's high enough, long enough, straight between the posts,
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Drink your beer but shed no tears for the days you miss the most,
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When every step and sill stood shining in black enamel from door to door,
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When the tears poured out like Reschs the day John Sattler broke his jaw.
2. Saturday morning on the Botany Road walked the lean and mean,