The Aberdeen Foundation

LIKE WE DID BACK THEN
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       Took a trip back to my home town down by the old wood school
       Where I had my share of good times an’ broke my share of rules
       With no computers or calculators we had to learn to count ourselves
       An’ back then they didn’t ignore the best books on history’s shelves

Back then we learned there’s grand design behind the master plan

And it gave us all a reason to help our fellow man

An’ Lord I’d give anything to be born again

       To live like we did back then

       We struggled to get by back then on our small family farm
       There was plenty of work to get done before the sun went down
       Livin’ in a slower lane we got far enough along anyway
       And looked forward to the future instead of dreamin’ of yesterday

Back then we learned there’s grand design behind the master plan

And it gave us all a reason to help our fellow man

An’ Lord I’d give anything to be born again

       To live like we did back then

       In a dot-com information age it’s easy to forget how to feel
       Like rats trapped in a steel city cage spinnin’ on a science fiction wheel

Back then we learned there’s grand design behind the master plan

Yeah, it gave us all a reason to help our fellow man

An’ Lord I’d give anything to be born again

To live like we did back then

Ummm, mmm, mmm, ummm, like we did back then

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