Written by Gary Gentry '1980 
Keep Picking - Dan Mooney - Portland, Oregon 
 
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Cigarettes were a quarter then, bobby socks and jeans were in, Elvis sang 
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the songs that we loved so, and the most important thing to 
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us, was keeping gas in my old truck, so I could take us to 
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the drive in show. 
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Then graduation finally came, Uncle Sam called me away, you married 
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someone else while I was gone, but I've kept your letter all 
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these years, and I can't help but shed a tear, when I read the 
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words you wrote me years 
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ago. 
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Baby I'm yours, I'll love you always, I'm gonna stand by you 
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until the end of time, remember all of the good things that we 
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shared together, signed, love   Betty, nineteen fifty nine.  
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I never will forget the day, when you and I went all the way, I was the 
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first for you, and you for me, I've still got the truck that 
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we loved in, it takes me back there now and then, back to 
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fifty nine in my memory. 
 
 
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