| 'Round here we don’t need no one trying to set us straight
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| Heck, I got a red neck in plaid suit
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| And he’s on TV real late balalaikas tolling
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| Sheba plays the flute
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| There’s a communist and capitalists
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| They all think I’m cute
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| You know, I’m out of rehab
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| You know, I’m with the band
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| Anyway I think it’s time to say
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| Exactly what I am
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| Cause I tried to be a man
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| But that’s just not meant to be
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| You know I
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| Tried to be a man
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| That’s not what I came to be
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| Well, there’s seven years of famine
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| And seven years of drought
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| Seven years of Sam
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| And you know what I’m talking about
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| And it won’t take very long before its hard to tell
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| If they’re trying to take you back with him
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| To heaven or to hell
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| They make her so pretty
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| She won’t be pretty long
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| She’ll be rising out of the sea of planet Babylon
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| Cause she tried to be a man
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| That’s not what she came to be
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| She tried to be a man
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| That’s not what she came to be
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| She’s living down on Bronson
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| She never blinks her eyes
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| The family in Wisconsin
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| Look like they’re hypnotized
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| I get a strange sensation
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| When I lay down in my bed
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| In fact, if you could drop me on the corner
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| Here instead on planet Babylon
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| That’s where they wrote the book
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| Hey there’s something here about you
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| Come on and take a look
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| It says you tried to be a man
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| But that’s not what you came to be
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| It says, it says, it says, it says
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| You tried to be a man
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| But that’s not what you came to be
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| Came to be
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| What you came to be
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| That’s not what you came to be |