J. Michael Tracy male/uptempo

Short cut hair and a baseball cap

A red Swiss knife and a treasure map

A big brown dog and and purple bike

Watchin’ the river from the top of the dike

He played short-stop in little league

Built a rickety fort up in the maple tree

Beetles and toads were his favorite toys

He was, The All American Boy

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What ever happened to Johnny

Did he loose his mind

Searchin’ for the simple life

He could not seem to find

He disappeared one afternoon

Cause life had lost all it’s joy

Whatever happened to Johnny

The All American Boy

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Someone said that he’d been seen

Up in the mountains in a fishin’ stream

Pocket full of lures and a feather light rod

Talkin’ to Nature, talkin’ to God

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His heart has gone where his mind don’t dare

It knows what’s right but it don’t care

Searchin the eyes of everyone

For a life that used to be

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Whatever happened to Johnny

The All American Boy

Should have known right from the start

That he’d tear your life apart

There’s no excuse for what he’s---done to you

Killed your dreams and broke your heart

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Like a butterfly in the rain

Tumbling and falling again and again

Delicate wings—tattered and torn by the wind

Seeing you tossed to the ground

-----I could not leave you to drown

Cause you are my life

My butterfly in the rain

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I will never do you wrong

You can rest here in my arms

You won’t have to worry---anymore

Cause I’ll protect you from the storm

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But sometimes while you sleep

--You cry outloud

Dropping helplessly be-

Neath those darkened clouds...

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A butterfly in the rain

Tumbling and falling again and again

Delicate wings tattered and torn by the wind

Seeing you tossed to the ground

---I could not leave you to drown

Cause you are my life

My butterfly in the rain

I give you my life

My butterfly in the rain

I give you my life

Our vows you planned to break

Your prayers you know are fake

Somethin’ I can’t take, it’s over

You deceived me with your lies

You had such good alibis 

I was crucified, it’s over

It’s over

Yeahhhhhh, it’s over

Meant nothin’ much to you

But I tried to see us through

Girl it still takes two, it’s over

You’re a cross that I can’t bare

And a pain I just won’t share

Now I just don’t care, it’s over

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I hear freedom ring’n

And the birds are singin’ 

So I’m takin’ wing, it’s over

Yeahhhhhh it’s over

(verse)

But ya know I’ve learned a lot

And I love this life I’ve got

Took your best damn shot, it’s over

So go on and live your lie

When it leaves you high and dry

Baby I won’t cry, it’s over

Ooohhhhh it’s over

Yeahhhhh it’s over

J. Michael Tracy  male vocal/uptempo

School days, purple Stingray, banana seat bike

I’d ride, by your house cause you’re the girl I liked

Sometimes, I’d catch you walkin’ and slow way down

At 15, our whole world was our little town now

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Way back when, we were children

Way back when, and it was so cool

Way back when, there was nothin’

We couldn’t do and so we

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Tied up, a big ol’ rope in the oak tree

Took turns, playin’ Tarzan, you and me

Don’t know, how we kept from breakin’ our necks

So young, so fun, so what the heck, now

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Way back when, we were children

Way back when, and it was so cool

Way back when, there was nothin’

We couldn’t do and

Way back when, we had good times

Way back when, and innocence ruled

Way back when, we had each other

And we still do, now Baby

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This, is, the, fu- ture and, what’s now was then

See how these good things, can, all come round again yeah

(verse)

Road Kings, Chevy Stingray, an S.U.V.

Looks like we made it Baby, you and me

Sometimes we’ll take a break and slow way down

Cause these days, our whole world, is our little town yeah

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(tag) From way back when

Way back when