The Kinks – All Of My Friends Were There (Guitar)

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My big day, it was the biggest day of my life

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It was the summit of my long career

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But I felt so down, and I drank too much beer

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And my manager said that I should not appear

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I walked out onto the stage and started to speak

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The first night I've missed for a couple of years

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I explained to the crowd and they started to jeer

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And just when I wanted no one to be there

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All of my friends were there

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Not just my friends, but their best friends too

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All of my friends were there to stand and stare

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Say what they may, all of their friends need not stare

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Those who laughed were not friends anyway

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All of my friends were there to stand and stare

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Days went by, I walked around dressed in a disguise

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I wore a mustache and I parted my hair

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And gave the impression that I did not care

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But oh, the embarrassment, oh, the despair

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Came the day, helped with a few last glasses of gin

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I nervously mounted the stage once again

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Got through my performance and no one complained

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Thank God I can go back to normal again

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I went to that old cafe

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Where I had been in much happier days

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And all of my friends were there, and no one cared

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Say what they may, all of my friends were there

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Not just my friends, but their best friends too

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All of my friends were there, now I don't care