1959

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[Verse 1]
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  Cigarettes were a quarter then,
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  bobby socks and jeans were in,
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Elvis sang the songs that we loved so,
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and the most important thing to us
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 was keeping gas in my old truck,
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   so I could take us to the drive-in show.


[Verse 2]
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  Then graduation finally came,
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  Uncle Sam called me away,
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you married someone else while I was gone,
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but I've kept your letter all these years
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  and I can't help but shed a tear,
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when I read the words you wrote me years ago.

[Chorus]
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Baby I'm yours,    I'll love you always,
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I'm gonna stand by you until the end of time,
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remember all of the good things   that we shared together
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signed, love Betty,    nineteen fifty nine.

[Riff]
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[Verse 2]
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  I never will forget the day,
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when you and I went all the way,
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I was the first for you,
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and you for me,
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I've still got the truck that we loved in
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it takes me back there now and then,
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back to fifty nine in my memory.

[Chorus]
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Baby I'm yours,    I'll love you always,
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I'm gonna stand by you until the end of time,
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remember all of the good things   that we shared together
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signed, love Betty,    nineteen fifty nine.