Chorus:
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Here's to memory, old age and every
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Here's to the people who live in a shell
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Here's to memory, one more for every
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One for the road where pedestrians dwell

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So self-assured, complacent and bored
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Our hero opens a box on the shelf
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Containing advice, so worldly and wise
                         A5           D5    G5 A5  D5  G5 A5
Welcomes his children to help themselves

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He hasn't time for riddle or rhyme
Too busy fighting machines at the plant
He married young, his path is his pocket
Beginnings and endings escape from this end

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Baptized, materialized, no time to realise
Caught in the current and drown in the well
Went about fifty, stubborn and empty
Hands out the world for his children to sell

Chorus (2X)






by: Jos? Duarte