| Momma got to worrying because her boy left home in a hurry again
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| Her photographs are fading, she keeps a box in the closet full of negatives
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| Well, I left a note on the floor in my room
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| I’ve always been stubborn and late to bloom
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| I had to lay down my load, my burdens are my own
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| It’s a coming of age when you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| And I know, I know
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| I was longing on a short summer night when I had the urge to leave
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| I went out to find my muse with a eight in my pocket and a craving for some
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| cajun blues
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| I was following my follies when I saw her aboard the river queen
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| I was courting my frail lady all the way to New Orleans
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| But I was swoon by a luminous tomb so I climbed the roof and gave that woman my
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| croon
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| I had to tell her all I know, my business is my own
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| It’s a coming of age when you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| And I know, I know
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| When you feel
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel
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| When you feel it
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| Well, mamma got to worrying she said «Now boy, I stay up late wondering where
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| you been!
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| Oh, soon your gonna have to give in no you can’t live forever the way that you
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| been.»
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| Oh, mamma I’m not trying to do not wrong I had to learn this is the way I get
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| along
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| It’s a life that I chose, my reasons are my own
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| It’s a coming of age when you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| I know, I know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know
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| When you feel it you know |