Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Shirley Temple
Canonical path: /shirley-temple/when-you-were-sweet-sixteen
Related lyric paths: 6
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When you were sweet sixteen
Read When you were sweet sixteen lyrics by Shirley Temple on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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When you were sweet sixteen
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I loved you as I've never loved before
Since first I met you on the village green (the village green)
Come to me ere my dream of love is o'er
I loved you as I..(aww that's terrible *complaints*...)
Just a moment now, I was standing right here, someone was a
little bit sour...
It was you!
What? Well, what do you know about music?
Well of all the impertinence...
You were off-key, that part goes like this
'I loved you as I loved you, when you were sweet...'
That's just the way I did it..
I did!
Let's try it again
All right you take it
I loved you as I loved you, when you were...
Sweet...when you were sweet...sixteen
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Shirley Temple performs "When you were sweet sixteen", and this lyric page sits inside the Shirley Temple catalog on LyroVerse.
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