| Take this bread, if you need a friend
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| 'Cause I’m alright if you’re alright
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| I ain’t got a lot, but all I got
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| You’re welcome to it
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| 'Cause I’m alright if you’re alright
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| My neighbor Odetta
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| Came over to see if I was feeling better
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| Every morning at 8 through the backyard gate
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| And of all the pretty things she would bring
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| There was nothing like that song she sang
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| That could ease my sorry state
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| She’d sing to me:
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| Take this bread, if you need a friend
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| 'Cause I’m alright, if you’re alright
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| I ain’t got a lot, but all I got
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| You’re welcome to it
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| 'Cause I’m alright if you’re alright
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| Sha na na na na na
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| lalalalalala la
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| Whoa! | 
| Take this bread.
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| Sure thing, If I got bread you got bread
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| And everybody in my company has got bread
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| You look a little hungry
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| I ain’t even that hungry, that’s how I look at it
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| Butter side up, butter side down
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| Doesn’t matter to me
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| If you got a slice, that’s nice.
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| I went for a walk, headlights in the dark
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| The man was dying in a pick-up truck
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| He took her from the wall, my parking lot
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| And killed her by the river
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| But the cops caught him in the guns
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| And I said to him.
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| Take this bread, if you need a friend
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| 'Cause I’m alright, if you’re alright
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| I ain’t got a lot, but all I got
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| You’re welcome to it
 | 
| 'Cause I’m alright if you’re alright
 | 
| Take this bread, if you need a friend
 | 
| 'Cause I’m alright if you’re alright
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| I ain’t got a lot, but all I got
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| You’re welcome to it
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| 'Cause I’m alright if you’re alright
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| I’m alright if you’re alright |