Jackson Browne – Of Missing Persons (Ukulele)

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Your father was a rounder he played that rock and roll

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A leaper and a bounder down to his gypsy soul

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The music was his angel and sorrow was his star

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And those of us who follow might hope to reach as far

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They're walking slow in Houston speechless in  D.C.

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There's no way I could tell you what he meant to me

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Your mother's a survivor she'll do what must be done

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Her children will revive her and help her see the sun

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She almost knew that unison but the singing stopped too soon

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Now she shares the silence with a man up in the moon

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To speak of missing persons tonight there's only one

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And we all carry with us what the man's begun

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And you can sing this song on July the Fourth

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In the sunny south and the frozen north

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It's a day of loss, it's your day of birth

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Does it take a death to learn what a life is worth?

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Your brothers are all older and they'll take it in their stride

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The world's a little colder but manhood's on their side

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Now you're the little girl-child and you look so much like him

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And he's right there inside you each time you want to sing

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Sing of missing persons tonight there's only one

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But he's where you can find him when it's said and done

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And we will sing this song on July the Fourth

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From the sunny south and the frozen north

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This will always be your day of birth

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May you always see what your life is worth

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And you can sing this song on July the Fourth

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In the sunny south and the frozen north

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It's a day of loss, it's your day of birth