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Introduction: Eb
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Now they're makin' movies in old black and white,
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With happy endings where nobody fights
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So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage,
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Honey jump right up and show your age
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I wish I had a pencil thin moustache, the Boston Blackie kind
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A two tone Ricky Ricardo jacket,
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And an autographed picture of Andy Devine
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I remember being buck toothed and skinny,
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Writing fan letters to Sky's niece Penny
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Well I wish I had a pencil thin moustache,
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Then I could solve some mysteries too.
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There's Bandstand, Disneyland, growin' up fast,
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Drinkin' on a fake ID yeah
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Rama of the jungle was ev ' ry - one's Bwana,
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But only jazz musicians were smokin' marijuana
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I wish I had a pencil thin moustache, then I could solve some mysteries too.
PENCIL THIN MOUSTACHE
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There's Flat-Top, Dirty Bop, coppin' a feel,
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Grubbin' on the living room floor, so sore, yeah
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Send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge,
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But all you want to do is learn how to score, yeah
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Now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear.
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I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
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But I can go to movies and see it all there just the way that it used to be.
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I wish I had a pencil thin moustache, the Boston Blackie kind
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A two tone Ricky Ricardo jacket, and an autographed picture of Andy
Devine
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I could be anyone I wanted to be, the suave Errol Flynn or the sheik of
Araby
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If I only had a pencil thin moustache, then I could do some cruisin' too
yeah
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Bryl l - cream a little dab'll do ya yeah I could do some cruisin'
too.