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I was only eighteen in a ducktail and jeans when he had to go

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We spent so many nights me and Jim and the lights from my radio

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I never knew him or once shook his hand 

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But sometimes I think he was my closest friend


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I can stand at my window some nights

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With a soft southern breeze gently blowing

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I know deep inside he’s still shining somewhere

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Out where the bright lights are glowing


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When love let me down Jim was around to share those four walls

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But then he went away one fateful day and saddened us all

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The headline that morning I remember it yet

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He’ll never be that easy to forget


      F           G7          C
I can stand at my window some nights

       F             G7            C
With a soft southern breeze gently blowing

  F           G7              C           Am
I know deep inside he’s still shining somewhere

F             G7                C
Out where the bright lights are glowing


F             G7                C
Out where the bright lights are glowing