John Anderson – 1959 (Guitar)

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  Cigarettes were a quarter then, 

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  bobby socks and jeans were in, 

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Elvis sang the songs that we loved so, 

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and the most important thing to us

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 was keeping gas in my old truck, 

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   so I could take us to the drive-in show.

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  Then graduation finally came, 

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  Uncle Sam called me away, 

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you married someone else while I was gone, 

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but I've kept your letter all these years

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  and I can't help but shed a tear, 

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when I read the words you wrote me years ago.

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Baby I'm yours,    I'll love you always, 

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I'm gonna stand by you until the end of time,

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remember all of the good things   that we shared together

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signed, love Betty,    nineteen fifty nine.

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  I never will forget the day, 

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when you and I went all the way,

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I was the first for you,

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and you for me,

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I've still got the truck that we loved in

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it takes me back there now and then, 

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back to fifty nine in my memory.

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Baby I'm yours,    I'll love you always, 

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I'm gonna stand by you until the end of time,

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remember all of the good things   that we shared together

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signed, love Betty,    nineteen fifty nine.