When I was a kid

I wanted to learn how

to play the piano,

but my parents couldn’t

afford to buy me a

a whole piano,

but they did get me the

piano stool.

So, mostly,

I practiced my posture.

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But you know what?

I was good.

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part II

And some-times, as I 

would sit there on the piano stool,

I would dream of going

living in the 1920s.

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If I could only go back in time,

then I could fulfill my destiny

of becoming a

tin-pan alley songwriter.”

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And if I was lucky, and

I worked hard at my craft,

maybe I could get the

great Rudy Vallee

to sing my new hit song,

“Strawberry Fields Forever”