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It's been a long time since I've walked through this old town 
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Oh how the memories start to flow 
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There's the old movie house, they finally closed it down 
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You could find me there every Friday night twenty years ago 
 

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I worked the counter at the drugstore down the street 
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But nobody's left there that I would know 
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On Saturday mornings that's where all my friends would meet 
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You'ld be surprized what a dime would buy twenty years ago 
    

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All my memries from those days come gather around me 
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What I'd give if they could take me back in time 
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Oh, it almost seems like yesterday, where do the good times go? 
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Life was so much easier twenty years ago 
 

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I guess I should stop by Mr. Johnson's Hardware Store 
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His only son was my friend Joe 
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He joined the army back in 1964 
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How could we know he would never come back twenty years ago 
 
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Life was so much easier twenty years ago.