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On the day that school let out
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My sister Anne and me
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Walked the fields behind our house
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To find our Christmas tree
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She was six years older
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So she led the way
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As we walked out to find the tree we'd have on Christmas day.
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Now weeks of late November rain had brought the creek to flood
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As we walked out across the field
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Our boots sunk in the mud
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I soon realized that I could step inside her prints so grand
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Until it seemed like I was walking across the driest land
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I was walking in your foot prints
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Counting every step, measuring every move you made,
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Every word you said, and I was dancing in your shadow, doing what you do.
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I was learning how to be like me by being just like you.
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Mom could hit a baseball
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Lee could fly a kite,
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Dad knew every constellation in the sky at night
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And Ann could sing about every song that Elvis ever sung
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And it wasn't long before it seemed like I knew every one.
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I was walking in your foot prints
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Counting every step, measuring every move you made,
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Every word you said, and I was dancing in your shadow, doing what you do.
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I was learning how to be like me by being just like you.
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I was watching how you walked and talked.
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How you held you head.
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Every joke that made you laugh.
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Every book you read.
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And how you always did your best when no one seemed to care,
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How you did you did your duty,
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How you did your share.
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Now as I grow older
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It's so easy to forget all the ones who follow after me
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I can't imagine yet
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Who learn what I remember,
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Who do what I have done,
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Every step I travel now
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I walk for more than one.
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I'm walking in your foot prints
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Counting every step, measuring every move you made,
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Every word you said, and I was dancing in your shadow, doing what you do.
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I was learning how to be like me by being just like you.
