Ballad Of The Kingsmen

	  		 
 
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The Kingsmen came together in a garage, they could hardly even play 
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But they practiced night and day pretty soon they got to where they could really play that song Louie, Louie 
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So, they saved up all the money from the shows, went in to one of them studios and gave their version of the song a try 
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Now, I don't know the words to that song Louie, Louie and I'm pretty sure the singer for the  
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Kingsmen didn't know ?em either, if he did know ?em he didn't get ?em right on the record  
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Cause on the record they sound jumbled in his jaw? It says, me think of me girl oh so constantly 
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Ahmayaaah makaaaah aahh ooohoooh aaaaah 
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Well, that last part scared everybody from the PTA to the FBI 
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You see, the kids had been going kind of crazy lately and it seemed like nobody could figure out why,  
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So they decided to form a coalition, launch an investigation, you know for the children, they at least had to try 
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To figure out the words to Louie, Louie  
 
 
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It's the feel good hit of this endless summer 
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It gets these kids out of control 
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Singin along to that star spangled bummer,  
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Hail, hail rock and roll 
 
 
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Marilyn Manson?s real name isn't even Marilyn Manson, he's a skinny public high school  
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Kid from Florida, not some monster from out of this world and like of a lot other skinny long hair public  
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High school kids he was sick of getting beaten up by the pulling guard all week only to go out on the weekend, and watch the  
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Quarterback get all the girls so, he formed a band man 
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Now' he gets all the girls, a few years later a couple of latchkey kids go tragically  
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Mad and everybody's standing around the television store at the mall trying to figure out what went wrong, this guy says,  
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you think the life of a kid going to high school could've gotten so bad this other guy says nah,  
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It's just the words to one of them goddamn Marilyn Manson songs, you know the one 
 
 
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You know, every ten years or so our country and some other little country, we start firing all of our newest weapons  
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At each other for some reason or another, right or wrong, like it or not, it happens, and when it happens  
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People get shot and when people get shot, they show it on tv a lot every night at six o clock 
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And you don't even have to be eighteen to see it you don't even have to be in first grade,  
first grade where they teach the kid pride 
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They tell him he'll need to thrive, in a world where only the strong will survive, so he's taught the art of more 
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To compare to and to keep score Monday thru Friday while he stares at the floor til' Sunday they make him go to  
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School once more only this time they make him wear a suit and a tie and listen to some guy who claims to know where people go  
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When they die tell him that only the meek are gonna inherit the earth Well shit, by this time the kid doesn't know what anything  
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Is worth, now brothers and sisters I am only one guy and I don't even know the words to that song Louie, Louie 
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but I can tell you right now without batting an eye that the next time some latchkey kid goes wrong 
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It aint gonna be cause that Eminem gets to say the word Fag in his song 
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And I'm not trying to preach to ya either, I'm just trying to sing to ya too, you know string a few words together 
 
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Hey kids... 
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Lets get it on, 
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Lets get it on