Intro
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Verse 1
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Hey little girl is your Daddy home? 
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Did he go and leave you all alone? 
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Hmmm    I got a bad desire, 
 
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Verse 2
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   And now the times are changin' 
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   Look at everything that's come and gone 
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   Sometimes when I play that old six-string 
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   I think about you, wonder what went wrong 
 
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Verse 3
 
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Now is he good to you? 
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Does he do to you the things that I do? 
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Oh no,  I can take you higher 
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Oh oh oh, I’m on fire 
 
Chorus 1
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    Oh, when I look back now 
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    That summer seemed to last forever 
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    And if I had the choice 
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    Yeah, I'd always wanna be there 
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    Those were the best days of my life 
 
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                       Oooh ooh oh 
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Ooooooooooooooooooh   Ooooooooooooh 
 
Verse 4
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    Ain't no use in complainin' 
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    When you got a job to do 
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    Spent my evenin's down at the drive in 
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    And that's when I met you 
 
Chorus 2
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    Standin' on your mama's porch 
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    You told me that you'd wait forever 
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    Oh, and when you held my hand 
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    I knew that it was now or never 
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    Those were the best days of my life 
 
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Bridge
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Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull, 
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And cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul 
 
Verse 5
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At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet 
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And a freight train running through the middle of my head 
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Only you, can cool my desire 
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Oh oh oh, I’m on fire 
 
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                       Oooh ooh oh 
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Ooooooooooooooooooh   Ooooooooooooh 
 
Outro
 
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    Oh, and when you held my hand 
G                      C 
    I knew that it was now or never 
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    Those were the best days of my life 
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Oh oh oh, I’m on fire 
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Oh oh oh, I’m on fire 
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Oh yeah        Back in the summer of '69     Ohhh 
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I’m on fire    Oh yeah        Back in the summer of '69     Ohhhhhh 
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I’m on fire