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Way long ago on Rockaway Beach
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A sea turtle named Rocky befriended a leech
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The leech was named Hector and every which
way
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Rocky and he were very low paid

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This is the tale of a sea turtle and a leech
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This is the saga of how hard it is to be a sea
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turtle and a leech

V2
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Rocky was a big, bold, plaid, old lumberjack
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And Hector wrote poetry
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It was hard for them to pay the fees
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Of living on Rockaway Beach

V3
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There were no trees for Rocky’s timber
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Hector had no arms for his poetry
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How hard it must be to see an armless leech,
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Or a treeless beach Woah, woah, woah

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Am dm CM em
This is a tale of a sea turtle and a leech
This is the saga of how hard it is to be a sea turtle and a leech

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They were visited by a magician
With the help of his mother, a statistician
They planted some trees for rocky to cut
And made Hector some arms to write his poems

And all for Hector and Rocky was swell
Except Rocky forgot the permit to sell
His trees and he got in a legal battle
He suspected the statistician might have been tattlin’

Eventually he won his case
decided to keep all of the trees in their place
And let all God’s good children come and to be
To gaze upon his magical trees

Hector used his brand new arm
To write a poem about the farm
Of trees that Rocky grew and grew
And Hector’s fame jumped and flew

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Am dm CM em
This is a tale of a sea turtle and a leech
This is the saga of how hard it is to be a sea turtle and a leech
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