| When I was eight years old
| Cuando tenia ocho años
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| I tried to leave the farm
| Traté de salir de la granja
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| I flew a homemade plane
| volé un avión casero
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| Out of the loft of the barn
| Fuera del desván del granero
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| If I could go back now
| Si pudiera volver ahora
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| You couldn’t pay me to leave
| No podrías pagarme para irme
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| 'Cause that old gravel road was easy street
| Porque ese viejo camino de grava era una calle fácil
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| We were a four-dog family
| Éramos una familia de cuatro perros
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| With some dreams and a flat-bed truck
| Con algunos sueños y un camión de plataforma
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| That ole school bus would rattle and shake
| Ese viejo autobús escolar traquetearía y se sacudiría
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| When it would pick us up
| Cuando nos recogería
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| Those creek bank rocks
| Esas rocas del banco del arroyo
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| Were hard on our feet
| Fueron duros para nuestros pies
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| But that ole gravel road was easy street
| Pero ese viejo camino de grava era una calle fácil
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| That ole gravel road was easy street
| Ese viejo camino de ripio era una calle fácil
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| They used to say we were poor
| Solían decir que éramos pobres
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| But we were rich as we could be
| Pero éramos tan ricos como podíamos ser
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| We were down on our luck
| Tuvimos mala suerte
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| But we were up to our necks in homemade love
| Pero estábamos hasta el cuello de amor casero
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| That ole gravel road was easy street
| Ese viejo camino de ripio era una calle fácil
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| I thought having it made
| Pensé en tenerlo hecho
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| Was growing up
| estaba creciendo
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| Movin' off to town, getting' married
| Mudarse a la ciudad, casarse
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| And going to work
| Y yendo a trabajar
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| But those sidewalks
| Pero esas aceras
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| Ain’t all they’re cracked up to be
| No es todo lo que están locos por ser
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| That ole gravel road was easy street | Ese viejo camino de ripio era una calle fácil |