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My aunt is living in the country in a house by the water
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That's the place where I learned to swim
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When the uncle was still living he kept his prize winning chickens
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That looked like waiters in black & white
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I was sleeping in the attic between the preservation bottles
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And my cousin with peroxidized hair
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The boys next door were standing on a tyre of an aeroplane
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In the middle of the river in their Sunday suits
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Pelican & Penguin you are wakening me up
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I'm in the middle of dreaming and you are tearing it apart?
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My uncle he was reading lots of pocket books
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He had one shelf for Penguin and one shelf for Pelican
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When he was dead and buried my aunt gave me the books
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She didn't care too much for reading
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And nowadays when I travel I always take one of each
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I look at the back and make my choice
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Pelican & Penguin you are wakening me up
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I'm in the middle of dreaming and you are tearing it apart?
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