Three Wishes

.Reached back for the bottle
.And rubbed against the lamp
.Genie came out smiling
.Like some Eastern tramp
.He said^{hey boy what's happening
.What is going on
.You can have three wishes
.If you don't take too long}
.I said _{well
.I wish they were all happy in the Lebanon
.Wish somebody'd help me write this song
.I wish when I was young
.My old man had not been gone}
.Genie said ^{consider it done}
.
.There's something in the air
.And you don't know what it is
.You see someone through the window
.Who you've just learned to miss
.And the hill road leads on to glory but
.You've used up your last wish
.Your last wish
.And you want her to come home
.
.Genie said ^{I'm sorry
.But that's the way it goes
.Where the hell's the lamp sucker
.It's time for me to go
.Bye}

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