FIRST VERSE: 
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 Talked to my daddy last night about the nineteen fifty two 
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I'd heard about the good ol' days 
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And I was wonderin' if they were true 
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 Well it must have been, be cause he smiled 
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and his eyes looked into mine 
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And I could tell he touched a memory as he told me of a time 
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When the Dodgers were in Brooklyn and the air was clean 
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 Marylyn Monroe was breaking hearts on silver screens 
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Daddy finally stole my momma's heart away from ol' James Dean 
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On the other side of memory's fence, the grass is always green  
 
SECOND VERSE: 

I talked to my momma, last night about the ways things use to be 

Showed me of a picture of some here and a guy that looked like me 

Spell bound around a tv in the den 

I wish that we could go back to those innocent times again 
 
CHORUS 
 
BRIDGE: 
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Now I know that time has changed things 
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Then and now is day and night 
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Memories will always be larger than life 
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And it's all right here in black in white 
 
CHORUS 
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On the other side of memory's fence, the grass is always green