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The first thing I remember I was lying in my bed,  
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I couldn't of been no more than one or two. 
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And I remember there's a radio comin' from the room next door, 
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and my mother laughed the way some ladies do, 
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when it's late in the evening and the music's seeping through.  
#2.   
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The next thing I remember, I am walking down the street, 
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I'm feeling all right I'm with my boys, I'm with my troops. 
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And down along the avenue some guys were shooting pool,  
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and I heard the sound of a cappella groups, 
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singing late in the evening, and all the girls out on the 
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stoops.  
#3.   
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Then I learned to play some lead guitar,  
  
I was underage in this funky bar, 
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and I stepped outside to smoke myself a "J". 
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And when I come back to the room,  
  
everybody just seemed to move, 
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and I turned my amp up loud and I began to play,  
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and it was late in the evening and I blew that room away.  
#4.   
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The first thing I remember when you came into my life, 
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I said, I'm gonna get that girl, no matter what I do. 
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Well, I guess I'd been in love before 
  
and once or twice I been on the floor, 
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but I never loved no one the way that I loved you.
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And it was late in the evening, and all the music seeping  
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through. (Last line x2.)