Summer Side of Life

He came down through fields of green
 On the summer side of life
 His love was ripe
 There was no illusions
 On the summer side of life
 Only tenderness
 And if you saw him now
 You'd wonder why he would cry
 The whole day long
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 There was young girls everywhere
 On the summer side of life
 They talked all night
 To the young men that they knew
 On the summer side of life
 Goin' off to fight
 And if you saw them now
 You'd wonder why they would cry
 The whole day long
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 He came down through fields of green
 On the summer side of life
 He prayed all night
 Then he walked into a house
 Where love had been misplaced
 His chance to waste
 And if you saw him now
 You'd wonder why he would cry
 The whole day long
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 And if you saw him now
 You'd wonder why
 And if you saw him now
 You'd wonder why
 And if you saw him now
 You'd wonder why