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Standin on the Windows of My Mind 
see the lovely things I left behind 
Standin on the brink of all time 
we'll all be angels in Heaven 
bye and bye 

In the first and second grades we would play 
in the schoolyard said she'd marry me, Debby Fay 
Standin on the Windows of My Mind 
we'll all be angels in Heaven 
bye and bye 

Later I roamed the world a time or two, 
lookin for someone special just like you 
I gambled for gold in Norway, hiked Austra-li-yee 
I watched the spout of the humpback whale at sea 

I run the powdered gold through Mexico 
learned the Spanish tongue, so it's told 
coming north to Houston, crossin El Rio Grande, 
caught by the Border Guards like Vietnam 

After I roamed the world a time or two, 
I come back home to Georgia, and you 
I hugged you in my arms again and kissed your pretty lips
I felt your breath upon me in the mist 
the clay was cold on my fingers in the soil 
but I had to see you once again just as before 

It's five years since she's gone, they told me, 
in a crash on Route 7, with a tree.

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Submitted on: August 26, 2018