glen echo

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1992

larry curtis spurlock

glen echo

chorus
i always loved to go
to glen echo
glen echo .. glen echo
glen echo, maryland
'56 thru '60 .. i don't know
but boy how i loved so
going to glen echo
oh oh .. glen echo
oh oh .. amusement park
oh oh
'til it was nearly dark

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my mom worked at hot shoppe
and every year
they'd pay for our rides
food drinks but no beer

2
i remember being there
first day of fourth grade
but usually in the summer
gosh i had it made

3
but i lost my lunch token
i was a fool
i couldn't swim yet
at the crystal pool

4
but i played like a monkey
on every ride
yeah i rode them all
til i nearly died

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5
bumper cars .. spooky house
carousel
crack the whip .. brick bath house
and what was scary as hell

6
was two rolley coasters
that would really sail
the little pink one for my sisters
i rode the big white one with dale

7
we'd ride over and over and over
dale wouldn't let me run
i'd scream to get off - but
he'd tell the man i was having fun

8
there was so much fake laughter
from a jolly fat girl
and barbara jackson threw up
behind the tilt a whirl

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9
there was no beltway
in those days
georgetown pike to chain bridge
the rest was a haze

10
'til i could smell cotton candy
then see the mirror maze
if heaven's this good
i'll die any day

11
it was the last stop
on the georgetown trolly
it was truly a place
to say gosh gee golly

12
but it's over now
just a skeleton tomb
artists live there in huts
and there's still a grand ballroom

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