I Would Not Be Here

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I would not be here if I hadn't 
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been there
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And I wouldn't been there 
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if I hadn't just turned
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On Wednesday the third in the 
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late afternoon
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Got to talking with George who 
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works out in the back
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And only because he was getting 
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off early
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To go see a man at a Baker Street 
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bookstore
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With a rare first edition of 
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"Steamboats and Cotton"
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A book he would never have sought
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 in the first place
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Had he not been inspired
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By a fifth grade replacement 
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schoolteacher in Kirkwood
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Who was picked just at random
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By some man on a school board who 
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couldn't care less
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And she wouldn't been working
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If not for her husband
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Who moved two months prior to 
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work in the office
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Of a man he had met
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While he served in the army
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And only because they were in the
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 same barracks
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An accident caused by a poorly 
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made roster
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Mixed up on the desk of a Sargent
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 from Denver
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Who wouldn't be in but for being 
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in back
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In the car he was riding before 
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he enlisted that hit a cement truck
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And killed both his buddies
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But a back seat flew up there and 
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spared him from dying
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And only because of the fault of a 
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workman
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Who forgot to turn screws on a 
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line up in Detroit
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Cause he hollered at Sam who was 
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hateful that morning
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Hungover from drinking alone at a 
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tavern
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Because of a woman he wished he'd
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 not married
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He met long ago at a Jewish bar 
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mitzvah
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For the son of a man who had 
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moved there from Jersey
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Who managed a drugstore that sold
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 the prescription
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That cured up the illness he 
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caught way last summer
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He wouldn't have caught except 
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for some kid
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All contagious from fever who sat
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 in his lap
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Was the son of a man who sold him
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 insurance
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He met at a...