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Where Are They All Now?
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-31Where Are They All Now? I used to chase a milk truck With an early set of friends Down autumn streets and spring ravines, We ran with swords and guns, The ice was always bitter cold, But life was never very old. Where are they all now? Can you tell me? Were they really real? Have you seen them? Where are they all now? Now the fat kid living down the street, He always had the neatest toys But the redwood fence around his house Kept me and my friends at bay, But he was good for fightin’, And that made life excitin’. Where are they all now? Can you tell me? Were they really real? Have you seen them? Where are they all now? Baseball games in backyards. Bow and arrow battles, And tears we cried over dogs that died And the sterling silver saddle, On the pony at the county fair, that the guy you hated won But you swallowed your pride just to get yourself a ride When he got his treasure home. Where are they all now? Can you tell me? Were they really real? Have you seen them? Where are they all now? -32With bikes and trikes and kites and trees, we terrorized the town But my old man always transferred and I had to start again. My buddies they never came along. I turned the corner they were gone. Now the faces so unclear to me and some don’t come at all, But voices vaguely cross the years—sometimes they come to tell Of hiding in grandfather clocks, singing, winging sparrow hawks. Where are they all now? Can you tell me? Were they really real? Have you seen them? Where are they all now? Copyright © 1977 Prophecy Publishing, Inc/BUG Songwriter Steven Fromholz (ASCAP) ...