| I dont need no ones opinion
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| On the matter concerning my dress.
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| I was raised in a clinic down in oklahoma,
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| There were many things I did not possess.
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| I never complained, because my father said,
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| «son youll get your chance before youre my age».
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| Then he took me upstairs and gave me this suit
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| Written all over his face
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| He said, «others may come and others may go,
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| But that suit will be around wherever youre goin»
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| Three button hand me down
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| Three button hand me down
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| I had my fair share of neat women,
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| But they came between me and my suit.
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| That was a filly from boston, a barmaid from houston,
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| Not forgetting the one in detroit.
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| They said, «we like you boy and we think youre sweet,
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| But cant you lose your suit? |
| «I said, «no, you cant do that to me»
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| I remember what my father said:
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| He said, «others may come and others may go,
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| But that suit will be around wherever youre goin»
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| Three button hand me down, ha ha,
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| Three button hand me down
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| Ive never been a tidy dresser
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| And the fold in my trousers it aint straight.
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| Still I know a good cloth when I see one.
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| Thats why Im clad in this gray flannel suit.
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| Sometimes I wonder if I should visit a tailor
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| And get myself a smooth outfit.
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| Then I remember what my father said to me.
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| Ill make you from the open road
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| He said, «others may come and others may go,
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| But that suit will be around wherever you go»
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| Three button hand me down,
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| Three button hand me down |