The Here & the Now Loudon Wainwright III

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The strangest story ever told
Was how I got to be this old
At the close of World War II
My folks did the deed that the young folks do
In ’46, out I came
This world would never be the same!

I don’t know why, I’m not sure how
I wound up here, in the here and the now
(He don’t know why, he’s not sure how
He wound up here, in the here and the now)

In the 1950s, I was just a kid
Did all the kid stuff all you people did
I rode a bike, I threw a ball
Childhood, yeah, I got through it all
The '60s came, I got my zits
The girls were scary and the parents the pits

I don’t know why, I’m not sure how
I made it here, to the here and the now
(He don’t know why, he’s not sure how
He made it here, to the here and the now)

In the '70s, I made it big
Skunk time, fame, and well, few dig
I took a wife, we had some kids
Screwed that up and went on the skits
In the '80s I started me a brand new life
Had another kid, I took another wife

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