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KAYLEIGH
(With apologies to Marillion)

Do you remember stretchers breaking in the double scull
Do you remember filler packed into empacher hulls
Do you remember gates that stop the oars from sitting square
Do you remember I thought it was the rigging on the pair

By the way didn't I break your boat?
Please excuse me, I never meant to break your boat
So sorry, I never meant to break your boat
But you broke mine

Kayleigh is it too late to say I'm sorry?
And Kayleigh can you put it together again?
I just can't go on pretending that it came to a natural end
Kayleigh, oh I never thought I'd miss you
And Kayleigh I thought that we'd always be friends
We said our sculls would last forever
So how did it come to this bitter end?

Do you remember barefoot on the lawn at Fawley bar
Do you remember painting all the blades when it was dark
Do you remember doubling in a stampfli in the snow
Do you remember you never understood I had to row

By the way, didn't I break your boat
Please excuse me, I never meant to break your boat
So sorry, I never meant to break your boat
But you broke mine

Kayleigh I just wanna say I'm sorry
But Kayleigh I'm too scared to pick up the oars
To hear you've found another sculler to patch up your broken hull
Kayleigh I'm still trying to get selected
Kayleigh it's more important to me now you're gone
Maybe it will prove the coach was right
Or ever prove that I was wrong

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