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They say you taught me how to talk
Bet you wish you taught me how to stopyou're far away now, wish I could take a walk with you someplaceyou explained me to our parents
English wasn't their first language
They spoke German, hated Germansconfusing times
Oh sisterdown midwest backseat bumpy seatsyou sang my beatles songs with me
I sang your Broadway melodies, bad harmonyand where would Willie Mays have beenwithout Jackie Robinsonand who can say what I'd beenwithout you to lead the wayafter I showed some guys I could drink
You picked me of the lawn I think
And led me to the kitchen sink
Where I got rid of it
Some nights I lay awake in awe
As squinting through the dark I saw
You peeling off your teenage bra
The door slightly ajar
Oh sister
You lived just across the hall
For 18 summers, 18 fallsuntil you went away to that weird college in Wisconsinand where would Willie Mays have beenwithout Jackie Robinsonand who can say what I'd beenwithout you to lead the waytrust yourself, and you can do anythingthis I give to you
May your heart purr like a bumblebee
May all your backyards have a tree
May you always be HIV negative
I hope you meet some guy who
Treats women better than I do
I don't even care if he's a Jew or not
Oh sister
I remember in the temple hallat out dear father's funeral you sang like a nightingaleone of his own songsand where would Willie Mays have beenwithout Jackie Robinsonand who can say what I'd beenwithout you to lead the way
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