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Summer of 1978,
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My sister and I in the back seat just wait.
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We pass the time by making lines in the seat that we can't cross,
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A thin line like dental floss.
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She threw my new blue comb out the window, somewhere on I-70.
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Dad said, "I'm sorry, but we can't go back,"
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We're never going back to get it.
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It was the first comb I ever had.
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Got it just that morning from my mom and my dad.
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Light blue in color, I could never find another comb like that,
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big and fat...
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So tell me, have you seen my comb?
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Last time I saw it, it was in her hands,
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And then it was bouncing down the road.
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It wasn't fancy, it wasn't brown,
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But now it might be from lying on the ground.
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So tell me, have you seen my comb?
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Driving down the road in September,
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I was only five but I still remember,
E
Where the highway turns at the bottom of the hill,
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My parents both up front 'cause they loved each other still.
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Maybe just a comb made of plastic,
B
Or an action of a sibling lacking couth,
E
But something that was thrown out that window,
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Was the last great symbol of my youth.
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Have you seen my comb?
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Last time I saw it, it was in her hands,
B
And then it was bouncing down the road.
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It wasn't fancy, it wasn't brown,
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But now it might be from lying on the ground.
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So tell me, have you seen my comb?