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When I was young and went to school 
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They taught me how to write 

To take the chalk and make a mark 
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And hope it turns out right 
 
Well that's the way it is with love 
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And what you did to me 
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I wrote it so you'd know 
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That I was yours eternal-ly. 
 
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But my tears have washed I love you 
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>From the Blackboard of my heart 

It's too late to clean the slate 
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And make another start 

I'm satisfied the way things are 
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Although we're far a-part 
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My tears have washed I love you from 
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The Blackboard of my heart. 
 
If you'd been true the way you should 
And not have gone astray 
These tears would not have fallen down 
And washed the words away 
No need to talk, 'cause if the chalk 
Should write those words again 
It will be for someone else 
Not things that might have been. 
 
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