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Parade - How Can I Call This Home? lyrics

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SLATON:<br />

Today we honor those who honored us some fifty years ago.<br />

Those who gave life and limb for Georgia.<br />

And suffered unimaginable degredation. But never defeat.<br />

The men of Georgia, and the women of Georgia have never been defeated...<br />

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LEO:<br />

I go to bed at night<br />

Hoping when I wake<br />

This will all be gone<br />

Like it was just a dream<br />

And I'll be home again<br />

Back again in Brooklyn<br />

Back with people who look like I do<br />

And talk like I do<br />

And think like I do<br />

But then<br />

The sun rises in Atlanta again...<br />

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SLATON:<br />

They have risen from the ashes of war with honor and courage and strength!<br />

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LEO:<br />

These people make me tense<br />

I live in fear they'll start a conversation<br />

These people make no sense<br />

They talk and I just stare and shut my mouth<br />

It's like a foreign land<br />

I didn't understand<br />

That being Southern's not just being in the South<br />

Whan I look out on all this<br />

How can I call this Home?<br />

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SLATON: I am proud to be a Georgian on this day<br />

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LEO:<br />

These men belong in zoos<br />

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ASSORTED TOWNSPEOPLE:<br />

Excuse me! Sorry! Get your souveneirs!<br />

Watch your step sir<br />

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LEO:<br />

It's like they've never joined civilization<br />

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ASSORTED SPECTATORS:<br />

Where's the fella with the beer!<br />

Mamma that man pushed me!<br />

Lucinda! Hey now, fella!<br />

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LEO:<br />

The Jews are not like Jews<br />

I thought that Jews were Jews<br />

But I was wrong<br />

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ASSORTED SPECTATORS:<br />

You got ballons? I want one!<br />

Settle down... I never in my life!<br />

I'll take a beer!<br />

That Slaton's handsome...<br />

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LEO:<br />

I thought I would be fine<br />

But four years down the line<br />

With ev'ry word it's very clear<br />

I don't belong<br />

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ASSORTED SPECTATORS:<br />

La la la la la la Atlanta<br />

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LEO:<br />

I don't cuss, I don't drawl<br />

So how can I call this home?<br />

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SLATON: Proud that our state is growing and building!<br />

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LEO:<br />

Home calls, and I'm free of the Southern breeze<br />

Free of magnolia trees and endless sunshine!<br />

Evermore lives the dream of Atlanta<br />

But not mine!<br />

Not mine<br />

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ENSEMBLE:<br />

We stand together<br />

In this great state of Georgia<br />

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LEO:<br />

A Yankee with a college education<br />

Who by his own design<br />

Is trapped inside the land<br />

That time forgot<br />

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ENSEMBLE:<br />

Strong and proud<br />

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LEO:<br />

I'm trapped inside this life<br />

And trapped beside a wife<br />

Who would prefer that I said "Howdy" not "Shalom"<br />

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Well I'm sorry Lucille<br />

But I feel what I feel<br />

And this place is surreal<br />

So How can I call this home?

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