| Wait a minute baby
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| I’ll be right back
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| I just gotta talk
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| to a friend
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| for a couple of minutes
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| I see you looking
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| at the two of us and what do you see
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| the oldest couple at the Mayflower
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| Esther and Me I push her in the chair
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| I know she’d walk
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| if she could
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| she says «Take your pills»
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| as if they do any good
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| I’ll bet you think
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| that what you’re looking
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| at is all we are
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| two old people forgetting
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| the way we were
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| Sonny, no one is what they look like
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| everyone’s so much more
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| Sonny, no one is what they look like
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| and we’re not what
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| you see that’s for sure
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| You should have known her before
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| you should have known her before
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| legs she had legs
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| that made the guys drool
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| and her waist was as small
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| as your neck
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| and the face and the hair
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| and the rest of her
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| and when I look at her now
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| I still see her young and beautiful
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| she’s my girl and I’m her Joe
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| and we’re not what you see
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| In a minute baby I’ll be right back
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| I just got some more to say
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| to my young new friend here
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| Esther just turned 80 and I’m 83
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| the oldest couple at the Mayflower
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| Esther and me I knew that when I saw her
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| we were meant to be one
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| she says she didn’t notice me but don’t you believe her
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| I’ll bet you think that what you’re looking at is all we are
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| two old people
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| stumbling through the days
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| Sonny, no one is what
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| they look like
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| everyone’s so much more
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| Sonny, no one is what
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| they look like
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| and we’re not what you see
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| that’s for sure
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| You should have known me before
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| you should have known me before
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| hair, I had hair the girls
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| loved to feel and a built
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| watch out Joe Poluka
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| I could see I could hear
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| I could run a mile
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| and when I dream of us now
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| I still see us young and beautiful
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| she’s my girl and I’m her Joe
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| and we’re not what you see
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| I guess I better go now
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| she’s my family
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| the oldest couple
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| at the Mayflower
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| Esther and Me
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| I’ll help her with her bath
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| and then I’ll kiss her goodnight
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| and sometime’s we dance
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| in the early moonlight
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| I’ll bet you think that what
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| you’re looking at is all we are
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| two old people
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| watching the days go by Sonny, no one is what
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| they look like
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| everyone’s so much more
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| Sonny no one is what
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| they look like
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| and we’re not what you see
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| that’s for sure
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| I’ll be right there darlin' |