Just The Other Day

I remember when I turned ten. Seems Like yesterday

Daddy took me fishing and then the folks sang happy birthday

Mamma made me a big white cake, marshmallow bunnies on the top

My sister scared me with a toy snake. I bet I drank a gallon of pop

The other day I was ten. Lord, if I could do it all again

My biggest crime was to waste my time

Just the other day I was ten

Snowball fights, staying over nights with my best friend Willy

Monster show on the radio always scared us silly.

My dog woke me up with a lick on my face. I had a two dollar catcher’s mitt

Red Rover, Red Rover, come on over, anybody by my goal is it

Funny thing about the party that fall, most everyone’s gone but me

The only way I can hold them at all is in my memory

It all goes by in the blink of an eye, there’s no going back again

Kiss the ones you love and tell them why

Just the other day I was ten

If I had my way today I might be a billionaire

But I heard of one who weighed forty-eight pounds

And was scared to comb his hair

I don’t want a Nobel prize or to be a great leader of men

Don’t want to be a star you idolize.

All I want to be is just ten

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