Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio
Words and Music by Randy Sparks
from An Evening With John Denver (1975)
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Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio is like being nowhere at all
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All through the day how the hours rush by
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You sit in the park and you watch the grass die!
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Ah, but after the sunset, the dusk and the twilight
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When shadows of night start to fall
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They roll back the sidewalk precisely at ten
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And people who live there are not seen again!
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Just two lonely truckers from Great Falls, Montana
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And a salesman from places unknown (-ces unknown)
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All huddled together in downtown Toledo
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To spend their big night all alone!
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You ask how I know of Toledo, Ohio? Well I spent a week there one day
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They've got entertainment to dazzle your eyes
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Go visit the bakery and watch the buns rise!
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Ah, but let's not forget that the folks of Toledo
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Unselfishly gave us the scale
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No springs, honest weight, that's the promise they made
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So smile and be thankful next time you get weighed!
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And "wiv and wet wiv", let this be our motto
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Let's let the sleeping dogs lie (-ping dogs lie)
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And here's to the dogs of Toledo, Ohio
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Ladies, we bid you goodbye! (
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