1 to the 2, 3 to the 4
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It goes bam bam on the door
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Look, the beast's awake again
Suddenly everything's different
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They camp outside the halls and ask for autographs
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Now they scream my name
Passing out while they do
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Fainting before we've even started
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I come from a redneck town
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They love NASCAR there like Chevy, Ford
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Where cousin Bob cooks his batches in a meth lab
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Alone with a tape recorder there in a kid's room
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Raised on Peter Tosh, Dylan and Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Always summer, never winter, sand as red as skin
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Chirping crickets ring out, mosquitoes as big as a fist
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Ay yo I came from there
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City of Mardi Gras, land of every drum liner
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Coo coo like voodoo, damn hot like the jambalaya
Hallelujah, halle-hallelujah
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Finally it's time again
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A few wanted to try, tried to copy him
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But now it's finally time—
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Do what he wants, do what he wants
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So tall he can touch the sky
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So cheers, it'll never be like before again
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He may, he may, he may
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Do what he wants, do what he wants
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So tall he can touch the sky
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So cheers, it'll never be like before again
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8 to the 9, 9 to the 10
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Everybody after him can leave now
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First came the copy, then the copy of the copy
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Diary poetry, cheap-sounding melodies
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Everybody wants to be like my team but sadly don't know how
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Come with the Boom Boom Band behind me
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Like fans at the railing sweating to the end
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Hours of handshakes, kisses for Mister Griffey
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Came from Atlanta, Alabama to the swamps of Mississippi
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Yo with buckshot in the shotguns, drunk shooting at beer cans
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Bit my way up from the bottom like a crocodile jaw
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Yo, from trailer park to scene star, think every year
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How damn long, but look, we're finally here!
Hallelujah, halle-hallelujah
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Finally it's time again
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A few wanted to try, tried to copy him
_____
But now it's finally time
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Do what he wants, do what he wants
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So tall he can touch the sky
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So cheers, it'll never be like before again
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He may, he may, he may
_____
Do what he wants, do what he wants
_____
So tall he can touch the sky
_____
So cheers, it'll never be like before again
_____
Do what he wants, do what he wants
_____
So tall he can touch the sky
_____
So cheers, it'll never be like before again
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He may, he may, he may
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Do what he wants, do what he wants
_____
So tall he can touch the sky
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So cheers, it'll never be like before again