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Understanding

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Understanding

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* Understanding is the best thing in the world ,between a boy and a girlboy and girl and even a woman or a man , its alwaysbetter when you realy understand1) You know understanding is a mighty powerful thing ,thats why it makes me so sadwhen I see my friends wandering aroung thru the world, never knowing the meaning of the wordunderstanding , so in the next few minutes, Im gonnatry to explain just exactly what it meansnow wait a minute, listen , for instance , you take meand my old lady , we gotta good thing goinbecause I know If I dont work and pay the rent and thebills and buy her fine pretty clothes to wear well ,there are fifteen other guys just waitin round thecorner , and I dont care how much that woman loves me, she磗 gonna go out and find herself one of them whowill and thats why I believe that* repeat2) Now listen I dont want you to think that this is aone sided affair , no nobecause my old lady also understands that a man musthave respectwhat I mean is , if she must play around dont let mecatch her , because what I dont see cant hurt me , youunderstand? but on the other hand , If I should evercatch her Im not gonna talk about-aand call her a bunch of bad names like you all mightwhat Im gonna do , Im gonna go down-town to thehardware store and buy myself a double blade axe ,come back , square off, and believe her soul磗 gonnabelong to the good lordbecause her head磗 gonna belong to me , and Iguarantie she磍l know what I mean when Ill say
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