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Artist: Carly Simon
Canonical path: /carly-simon/in-two-straight-lines
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In Two Straight Lines
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In Two Straight Lines
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Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is fine
Twelve of us in two straight lines
The bravest of all is Madeline
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is cool
Cuckoo face, Pepito chases
Circus faces and saving school
In two straight lines we break our bread
In two straight lines we go to bed
In two straight lines
We go upstairs
We say goodnight
And then we say our prayers
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is sweet
Dressed so prim and on a whim
Holding up traffic in the street
Doot doot-n-doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is swell
Passing the days and thinking up ways
Of knocking the socks off of Miss Clavell
In two straight lines we're on the bus
In two straight lines its up to us
In two straight lines
We're wild again
When Madeline falls
Into the Seine
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is new
When Madeline terrifies a tiger
Not to mention the rest of us at the zoo
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is fine
The twelve of us in two straight lines
The bravest of all is Madeline
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is cool
Cuckoo face, Pepito chases
Circus faces and saving school
Doot doot-n-doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is sweet (Dressed so prim)
Dressed so prim and on a whim
Holding up traffic in the street
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is swell
Passing the days and thinking up ways
Of knocking the socks off of Miss Clavell
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Carly Simon performs "In Two Straight Lines", and this lyric page sits inside the Carly Simon catalog on LyroVerse.
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