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Living In The Future
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John Prine
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(originally named "jumpin jehosaphat")
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Jehosaphat the mongrel cat
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Jumped off the roof today
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Some would say he fell but I could tell
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He did himself away
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His eyes weren't bright like they were the night
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We played checkers on the train
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God bless his soul he was a tootsie roll
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But he's a dead cat just the same
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Chorus:
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We are living in the future
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I'll tell you how I know
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I read it in the paper
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Fifteen years ago
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We're all driving rocket ships
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And talking with our minds
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And wearing turquoise jewelry
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And standing in soup lines
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We are standing in soup lines
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Jake the barber's lonely daughter
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Went down to her daddy's shop
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She plugged herself to a barber pole
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And took a little off the top
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Pressure on the left. pressure on the right
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Pressure in the middle of the hole
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I'm goin' to maine on a forty foot crane
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I'm gonna use it for a fishin' pole
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Repeat chorus
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Old sarah brown sells tickets down
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At the all night picture show
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Where they grind out sex
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And they rate it with an "x"
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Just to make a young man's pants grow
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No tops no bottoms just hands and feet
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Screaming the posters out on the street
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Strangling the curious and the weak
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We give 'em what they want to see - o
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Repeat chorus
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