Sixteen
(Bruce Robison)

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I had turned sixteen growin' bored with life caught in between
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The things that I was doin', and what I'd never done before
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Those days were pretty much all the same
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Drinkin' beer and draggin' main, hopin' somethin' soon would change
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Before I went out of my gourd


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I thought she had been around, she's about the age that I am now
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Had moved away from town and come home divorced with a child
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She had hired me on to do the jobs that no one else would care to
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At a ranch where rich folks paid to act like cowboys for awhile

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We would stay up late and show them folks their bought and paid for
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Authentic country western Texas honky tonk good time
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One night when everyone was gone she played her favorite Elton John song
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And looked at me a way I thought she'd surely lost her mind


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But I was almost grown and she was often left alone to think about whatever women do
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And it was nearly right but not near enough to bring to light,
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But where you wonder who was usin' who


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We would sneak around, all across that little town
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And did our best to hide the secret we hoped everybody knew
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I guess she made me a man, at least the first time when I thought I was one
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Not necessarily within the law, still somethin' sure seemed true


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I don't know the reason wasted youth or football season
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Something makes me think about her more now than I think I did back then
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Right before I had left town I had quit coming around
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She called to say goodbye, I could hear her cry and I didn't even care


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