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Remember when --- we got the news --- confirming our --- worst fears.
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I said he wouldn't --- make it -- six months -- and others gave him -- a year.
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And sure enough --- last Saturday --- we paid our last ---- respects.

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He left us here --- still in -- this life -- and he's gone on to -- the next.
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I've never seen --- him wear -- a tie -- but he looked so natural -- almost lifelike
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The preacher spoke --- his mother cried --- when he said "Son, you may now kiss the
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bri-ide."

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Everyone cheered --- I thought "How odd" -- I didn't un --- derstand E Dbm A Am F#m B E B7
Why with champagne and cake --- we celebrate -- the death -- of a single man.

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So many flowers --- he was so loved -- prior to --- the bride
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As a matter of fact -- the maid ----- of honor --- should be disqual --- ified.
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To all his friends --- it's a wake-up call --- Dbm F#

If it happened to him -- it can hap -- pen to us a-all.
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Nothing says ---- it's over man ----

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Like a --- bad 80's cov --- er band.
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How can we dance --- to "My ----- Sharona" F#m B E
At the death --- of a sin -- gle man.
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He was so - young ---, so full of dreams --- before the day ---- he fell.
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Now he's gone on --- to -- a better place --- or possibly --- to hell.

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Now here we are ---- seems -- so unfair ----
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It's poker night -- and there's one empty chair --
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So many things ---- we're gonna miss --

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His happy smile -- and that great laugh of his.
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I think of him --- in the after-wife ( er-life) -- I guess all good things ---- must end. Dbm G# A Am
So with Jack -- and !@&@e -- we'll make --- a toast -- F#m B E
To the death -- of a single --- ma -- a --an ---