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Wild Strawberries

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Gordon Lightfoot Canonical path: /gordon-lightfoot/wild-strawberries Related lyric paths: 6
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Wild Strawberries

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If I had a dollar, if I had a cent

I would play most anywhere if it would pay my rent

I'd be livin' on the downside in my old apartment

For the rest of my days

People always ask why the world is on the run

People like you and like me

Is it really true you can really never win

Movin' to the upside, tell me when does the fun begin

Deep as the see and as wild as the weather

We will go just you and me to pick wild strawberries together

Or be livin' on our own, in a cabin in a meadow

Or meanderin' alone, we can face the world forever or we'll

Hit the bounding main or be on a railroad train

Hit the boundless tide or be on a steamboat ride

Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane

Hit the pounding tide or be on a rainbow ride

People often ask me just the way it must feel

To be standing up here with you down there

Let it now be known that throughout all of these years

I have been wearing polka dot underwear

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather

We will go just you and me to gather crabapples together

And be wandering along toward a cabin in the meadow

Or meandering alone, we can face the world together or we'll

Hit the bounding main or be on a railroad train

Hit the boundless tide or be on a steamboat ride

Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane

Hit the pounding tide or be on a rainbow ride

People always ask why the world is on the slide

People like you and like me

Is it really true there will be no peace left to hide

Turning to the upside, when does the fun begin

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather

We might go just you and me to pick wild strawberries together

Or be livin' on our own in a cabin in a meadow

And the cows will come home

They can face the world forever and we'll

Hit the bounding main or be on a railroad train

Hit the boundless tide or be on a steamboat ride

Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane

Hit the pounding tide or be on a rainbow ride

Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane...

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