And General Robert E. Lee - Elliott Murphy
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And you and me and General Robert E. Lee
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It was the greatest love story that was never told
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A couple of kids out in the cold
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They were lost in space, in a forest of doom
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The Black Mountain Tops - a silver room
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The Bad Princess - the Evil Duke - the Dead Pharaoh
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Oh and Captain Hook - no Peter Pan or Mighty Mouse
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The Big Bad Wolf blows down my house
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And you and me and General Robert E. Lee
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You know James Cagney, he was my best friend
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The facts of life - the old dead end
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The butler came down said someone had to die
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A murder mystery that’s never gonna fly
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A story here have no fear
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A world class myth is growing here
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The wankers whisper and pass the beer
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And Bambi grows into a beautiful deer
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And you and me and General Robert E. Lee
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There were to guitarists strumming into space
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Spreading that message all over the place
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UFO’s and flying cars
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And Telstar and a man from Mars
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I don’t know what will last
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A thousand years, the time goes past
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A thousand years, oh a thousand years
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And you and me and General Robert E. Lee
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And General Robert E. Lee
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Tell it on TV - on Charlie Chaplin’s knee
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I’m around the world in 80 days
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And Robert E. Lee is dressed in grey