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Goodbye to the creek and to playing hide and seek
goodbye to the streets where laughing children meet
over by the jungle gym where I first kissed a girl
goodbye to the neighbourhood that was my whole world

I've spent my whole life trying to learn how to be myself
and every time I lied I was being somebody else
but this ain't no storybook and it ain't no tv show
and that's a hard thing to learn but its part of growing up

That's what my daddy taught me the day he died
and maybe we weren't close but he never said goodbye

He grew up too fast and got married way to young
three kids and a mortgage and too little time for fun
he didn't have what he wanted and he didn't want what he had
if it were me I'd be moving on if it ever got so bad

That's what my daddy taught me the day he died
he left me there alone to wonder why

That's what my daddy taught me the day he died
and daddy I'm not perfect but I'll try
for you

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from Autobiography of a Dead Man, released October 25, 2013
Written and Performed by Jeff Hayward

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Jeff Hayward Kootenay Bay, British Columbia

Jeff Hayward lives on the shores of Kootenay Lake in the southern interior of British Columbia. He grows vegetables, keeps bees, and occasionally writes folk music.

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