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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was raised in Cincinnati
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You know, Cincinnati, Ohio
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And I remember when we were kids,
you know
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We used to walk to the woods,
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And go blackberry picking
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Swinging our baskets on our arms
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Skipping down the road, you know
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And Jelly used to have an expres
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sion he used to say back then
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And we made a song out of that expression
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I remember the words of it
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It used to go a little bit like this
The blacker the berry,
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the sweeter the juice
Verse 2
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The blacker the berry
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He said the sweeter the juice
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The blacker the berry
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Sweeter the juice
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Verse 3
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You know he digged
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blackberries so much
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And everywhere he would go he would
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use that as his excuse, you know
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For staying out late at night
And my brother Rudolph,
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he used to like strawberries
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If I remember correctly, at the time
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And at the time my thing
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was wild cherries
I remember the three of us used
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to steal tomatoes
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And lay on the ground and peel
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all kinds of ice potatoes
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And sing
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The blacker the berry,
Verse 4
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The sweeter the juice
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Oh yeah, alright
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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we used to strip down bananas
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And throw the peelings away at the same time in the street,
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you know
And when it got hot we'd drink all the
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lemonade we could get
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'Til we knocked ourselves
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clean off our feet
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And then we'd walk along,
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singing the blacker the berry
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The sweeter the juice
Verse 6
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Blackberries,
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the sweeter the juice
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Help me sing this song
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Blackberries, the sweeter,
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the sweeter the juice
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Verse 7
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Now how would you look eating a green berry,
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Ah, what's the use?
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Swing your basket on your arm
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And sing, and sing, and sing,
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and sing this song
Blacker the berry,
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all at the same time
Verse 8
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The blacker the berry, yeah yeah
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The sweeter the juice
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I like blackberries and everywhere I go,
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that's my excuse
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I can still hear him singing this song
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If you listen hard enough
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Listen at it, sweeter the juice
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Black
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are the berries
That's the way he sung it
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You know he sung it like that
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Black are the berries
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that's my excuse
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the black are the berries
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Sweeter the juice
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Sing it one more time
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Black are the berries,
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sweeter the juice
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I like blackberries, I like blackberries,
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that's my excuse
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Sing, sing, sing, sing the song
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Black are the berries,
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sweeter the juice
Black are the berries,
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sweeter the juice
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I like blackberries, and I like blackberries,
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that's my excuse
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And we would walk along and sing,
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sing, sing the song
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Lord have mercy
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Keep on singing, black are the berries,
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sweeter the juice
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I like blackberries, I like blackberries,
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that's my excuse
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Yeah, yeah,
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black are the berries
Outro 1
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