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mulsh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-16-07 11:16 PM
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favorite Elvis song- Clean up your own back yard
this one is from the late 60's and it has a little message.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap9HLk4VHXQ


Clean Up Your Own Back Yard
(words & music by b. strange - s. davis)

Back porch preacher preaching at me
Acting like he wrote the golden rules
Shaking his fist and speeching at me
Shouting from his soap box like a fool
Come sunday morning hes lying in bed
With his eye all red, with the wine in his head
Wishing he was dead when he oughta be
Heading for sunday school

Clean up your own backyard
Oh dont you hand me none of your lines
Clean up your own backyard
You tend to your business, Ill tend to mine

Drugstore cowboy criticizing
Acting like hes better than you and me
Standing on the sidewalk supervising
Telling everybody how they ought to be
Come closing time most every night
He locks up tight and out go the lights
And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife
With his employee

Clean up your own backyard
Oh dont you hand me none of your lines
Clean up your own backyard
You tend to your business, Ill tend to mine

Armchair quarterbacks always moanin
Second guessing people all day long
Pushing, fooling and hanging on in
Always messing where they dont belong
When you get right down to the nitty-gritty
Isnt it a pity that in this big city
Not a one alittle bitty manll admit
He could have been a little bit wrong

Clean up your own backyard
Oh dont you hand me, dont you hand me none of your lines
Clean up your own backyard
You tend to your business, Ill tend to mine

Clean up your own backyard
You tend to your business, Ill tend to mine

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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 03:16 AM
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1. I love that one

Even compared to many other great songs. Those last films had some great songs included, like this one, "A Little Less Conversation," "Edge of Reality," and others.

:headbang:

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