Everlast – Childrens Story (Guitar)

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Uncle Whitey, Uncle Whitey, can you tell us a bedtime story?

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Yeah, we want some bedtimes stories (Please!)

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Once upon a time not long ago when people wore pajamas and lived life slow

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When laws were stern and justice stood and people were behavin' like they our too good

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There was a little boy who was misled by another lil' boy and this is what he said

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"Me and you, Guy, we gonna make sum cash Robbin' old folks and makin' the dash"

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They did the job, money came with ease but one couldn't stop, it's like he had a disease

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He robbed another and another and a sister and her brother tried to rob a man who was a D.T. undercover

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The cop grabbed his arm, he started acting erratic he said keep still, boy, no need for static

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Punched him in his belly and he gave him a slap but little did he know the lil' boy was strapped

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The kid pulled out a gun he said why'd you hit me the barrel headed straight for the cop kidney

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The cop got scared, the kid, he starts to figure I'll do years if I pull this trigger

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So he cold dashed, ran around the block cop radios in to another lady cop

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He ran by a tree, there he saw this sister a shot for the head he shot back but he missed her

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Looked around good and from expectations he decided he'd head for the subway stations

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But she was coming so he made a left he was runnin' top speed till he was outta breath

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Knocked an old man down and swore he killed him then he made his move to an abandoned building

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Ran up the stairs up to the top floor opened up the door there, guess who he saw

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Dave the dope fiend shootin' dope who don't know the meaning of water nor soap

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He said I need bullets, hurry up, run the dope fiend brought back a spanking shotgun

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He went outside but there was cops all over then he dipped into a car, was a stolen Nova

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Raced up the block doing 83 crashed into a tree near university,

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Escaped alive though the car was battered Rat-a-tat-tatted and all the cops scattered

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Ran out of bullets but still had static grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic

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Pointed at her head and he said the gun was full of lead

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He told the cops, "back off or honey here's dead",

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Deep in his heart he knew he was wrong so he let the lady go and he starts to move on,

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Sirens sounded, he seemed astounded before long the lil' boy got surrounded,

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He dropped the gun, so went the glory and this is the way I gotta end this story,

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He was only nineteen, in a madman's dream I saw the cops shoot the kid, I still hear him scream,

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This ain't funny so don't you dare laugh just another case 'bout the wrong path,

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Straight and narrow or your soul gets cashed G'night