John Hartford — Back in the Goodle Days lyrics

Lyrics

One day about twenty-five years from now
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When we’ve all grown old from a-wondering how
Oh we’ll all sit down at the city dump
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And talk about the Goodle Days
Oh you’ll pass the joint and I’ll pass the wine
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And anything good from a-down the line
A lot of good things went down one time
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Back in the Goodle Days
Chorus:
And the Good Old Days are past and gone
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A lot of good people have done gone on
That’s my life when I sing this song about
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Back in the Goodle Days
Verse 2:
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Sometimes I get to thinkin' that we’re almost done
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And there ain’t nothin' left that we can figure out
And I guess it must have seemed a lot more like that
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Back in the Goodle Days
But when ya gotta go, ya gotta go
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There’s always somebody don’tcha know
A-hangin' round a-sayin' «Well I told you so»
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Back in the Goodle Days
Chorus
Verse 3:
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Oh we’ll all join hands and we’ll gather round
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When that old guitar starts to make that sound
A lot of good things went down downtown
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Back in the Goodle Days
Squeezin' love with the people that we hadn’t even met
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Out for anything that we could get
Oh we did it then and we’ll do it yet
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Back in the Goodle Days
Chorus
End