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Introducción:
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Today Granddad came by the office
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Amazed at all the papers that I sign
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I told him that's how we do business
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I'm just a product of modern times
He shook his head and then said
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I don't understand how all these deals are done
It just don't make no sense to me
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To deal with people you don't see
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We did it so much differently when I was young
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When the shake of a hand
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Was all you really needed
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The strength of a man was in his words
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When you could look him in the eye
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And know just where you stand
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Men were made on the shake of a hand
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Well I put down my pen down and closed up early
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We drank a beer and talked of times he's had
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He reminisced when he proposed to Nanna
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And how he got permission from her dad
He smiled and said I won't forget
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The hardest hand I ever had to shake
I told him I'd take care of her
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And through the years I kept my word
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Son we said just what we meant Back in those days
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When the shake of a hand
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Was all you really needed
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The strength of a man was in his words
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When you could look him in the eye
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And know just where you stand
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Men were made on the shake of a hand
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The shake of a hand
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Was all you really needed
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The strength of a man was in his word
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When you could look him in the eye
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And know just where you stand
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Men were made on the shake of a hand
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Oh Men were made on the shake of a hand