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I am the Theme from MASH Guy,
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My kids are the theme from MASH Guyâ??s kids,
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My sister is the sister of the guy who wrote
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The theme from MASH

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Itâ??s all I ever did
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It might be all I ever do
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I sit in a room in a house
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Built from the proceeds of the theme from...

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MASH
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Itâ??s my legacy
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I will always be
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To everybody and to me
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The guy who wrote the theme
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From MASH!

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Whenever anybody does a version
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Of the theme from MASH
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They are legally required
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To send me a copy
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Of their version of the theme

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I spend all day listening
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To recordings of versions of the theme from MASH
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Iâ??m building more shelving
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So I can store the tapes of the recordings
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Of the versions of the theme fromâ?¦

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MASH
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Itâ??s my legacy
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I will always be
Bm                  F#m
To everybody and to me
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The guy who wrote the theme
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From MASH!

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And on every spine
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Of every tape
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On every shelf I see
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The actual name
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Of the theme from MASH
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Is staring back at me
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Itâ??s Suicide is Painless
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Maybe in retrospect
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I should have called the song
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The theme from MASH