Going Out In Style lyrics

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I've seen a lot of sights and traveled many miles
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Shook a thousand hands and seen my share of smiles
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I've caused some great concern and told one too many lies
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And now I see the world through these sad, old, jaded eyes

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So what if I threw a party and all my friends were there?
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Acquaintances, relatives, the girls who never cared
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You'll have a host of rowdy hooligans in a big line out the door
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Side by side with Sister Barbara, Chief Wells and Bobby 'Orr
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I'd invite the Flannigans
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Replace the window you smashed out
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I'd apologize the Sluggo for pissing on his couch
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I'll see Mrs. McAuliffe and so many others soon
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Then I'll say I'm sorry for what I did sleepwalking in her room

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So what if I threw a party and invited Mayor Menino?
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He'd tell you to get a permit
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Well this time Tom I don't think so
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It's a neighborhood reunion
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But now we'd get along
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Van Morrison would be there and he'd sing me one last song
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With a backup band of bass players to keep us up all night
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Three handsome four string troubadours
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And Newton's own Fat Mike
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I'll be in the can having a smoke with Garv and Johnny Fitz
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But there's a back up in the bathroom
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Cause the Badger's got the shits


Chorus:
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You may bury me with an enemy in Mount Calvary
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You can stack me on a pyre and soak me down with whiskey
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Roast me to a blackened crisp and throw me in a pile
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I could really give a shit - I'm going out in style
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You can take my urn to Fenway spread my ashes all about
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Or you can bring me down to Wolly Beach
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And dump the sucker out
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Burn me to a rotten crisp and toast me for a while
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I could really give a shit - I'm going out in style

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Make me up dress me up
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Feed me a big old shot
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Of embalming fluid highballs
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So I don't start to rot
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Now take me to McGreevy's
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I wanna buy one final round
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That cheap prick would peel an orange in his pocket
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Then hurry up and suck 'em down

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If there's a god the girls you loved
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Will all come walking through the door
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Maybe they'll feeld bad for me and this stiff will finally score
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You've got the bed already
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And the nerve and courage too
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Cause I've be slugging from
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A stash of Desi Queally's 1980s
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Bathtub brew

Repeat Chorus--

Spread my ashes all about
Dump the sucker out
Toast me for a while
I'm going out in style