The girl said do you love me The boy said I do The girl said prove it The boy said hoo dee hoo
I headed for the water tower straight to the top With my spray paint can and I did not stop I painted your name larger than life About eight feet tall about twelve feet wide I think that you believed me when I came back down And for a couple of weeks we were the talk of the town
And the girls sang hoo dee hoo And the boys sang hoo dee hoo And everybody sang hoo dee hoo Hoo dee hoo hoo hoo
Then I left town looking for the holy grail You left the very next week with the jet set Sailing for the Caribbean where the rich kids play I missed you so much I fell down and prayed I joined every church they claimed they knew my sin They made me write the Lord?s Prayer on the head of a pin
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Well one year it was the factory and one year the park We heated with wood and the house caught fire I reached for a figure through the smoke and the sparks But which one did I save the girl or the guitar
Well I made a lot of money got a lot of good press Writing paperback novels like a man possessed Every name was changed every story was true Every priest was me every stripper was you And they danced like angels cast out for being lovers I wrote their life story on a matchbook cover
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I went home for Christmas to that little old town I ate a big dinner and went walking around I seen some other dumb kid had made that long hard climb He wasted his paint wasted his time But I know I?d do it all again if you asked me to And I?ll take you with me this time singing hoo dee hoo