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He didn't even get to see the summer settin', Dyin' all young

He didn't even get to see the summer settin', Dyin' all young

 Well, the telephone rang off the hook while the sun was goin' down

 She never heard her baby callin' now her baby ain't around

 It broke his mama's heart something pulled him like the tide

 Up on the banks of Methodonia laid down and closed his eyes

 Summer nights ain't never gonna feel right Dyin' all young, oh

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Wanted to be there in your future want you to see-me-when-you-look-back

 Want to be around to see you glow, little cowboy shine like lighting through a crack

 But you climbed back in that saddle for one more fatal ride

 If I had-it-all-to- do it all again I'd lock in you in your room this time

 Summer nights ain't never gonna feel right Dyin' all young, oh

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 Well, I don't like anything I'm seein' I don't like anything at

 all

 And when I come across your memory It always turns my skin to

 crawl

 I know I should feel lucky, lucky I'm alive

 One day your love bloomed like a flower that flower up and died

 We pump so much shit into this river, the river flows into the sea

 Every- -day I think about you, could you ever think of me? Oh

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 If you were here, I'd pick you up I'd make you say you'd had enough

(He didn't even get to see the summer settin' Dyin' all young)

 I'd pat your skin pull out your hair. Why'd you go along and leave me

here?

(He didn't even get to see the summer settin' Dyin' all young)

  Dyin' all young

(He-he didn't, he didn't, he didn't, he didn't)

Gonna meet your maker Dyin' all young

(He didn't even get to see the summer)

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