This Here Will Follow You - Tim Keenan (2008)
[VERSE 1]
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This story starts just south of Boston
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In a small town called Walpole my friend
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Had my father and my mother was still living
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And my brother we did the best that we can
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[VERSE 2]
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There was a factory about a mile from my home
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Got my first job sorting cans for Mr. Jones
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$5.25 an hour’s how it goes
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6-10 pm I was 14 years old
[CHORUS]
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Wherever we go and whatever we do
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This here will follow you
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Whatever we learn and whatever is new
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This here will follow you
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[VERSE 3]
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My Old Man he went to work everyday
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Was always different and so was his pay
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In the factory or construction crew
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Whatever it took brother that what he’d do
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[VERSE 4]
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He took a bullet for the Corp in Vietnam
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He joined up like his brothers before him
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He came home 98% man,
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And 2% steel and aluminum
[CHORUS]
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Wherever we go and whatever we do
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This here will follow you
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Whatever we learn and whatever is new
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This here will follow you
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[VERSE 5]
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My poor mother may God rest her soul
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She worked herself to death, she was 58 years old
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Working graveyards at the hospital in town
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She died in peace and in peace she is now
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[VERSE 6]
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I left home for adventure and love
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California is where I’d end up
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Got a job carrying rocks up a hill
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I was the Sisyphus of Oakland
[CHORUS]
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Wherever we go and whatever we do
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This here will follow you
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Whatever we learn and whatever is new
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This here will follow you
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[VERSE 7]
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I headed south got a job building ships
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In the interim had a job catching fish
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Had a car it was stuck in 3rd gear
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I didn’t know who I’d be in a year
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[VERSE 8]
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Had a woman addicted to ride
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Couldn’t keep one like that by my side
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Got one better, she makes coffee everyday
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So it’s to her that I bring home my pay
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[VERSE 9]
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Some say life is a coaster ride
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I’m sure that fine cept we’re all gonna die
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Where I been I remember it well
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It’ll follow me, It’ll follow me to hell
[CHORUS]
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Wherever we go and whatever we do
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This here will follow you
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Whatever we learn and whatever is new
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This here will follow you
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