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Lovebirds

from First Ladies by Adam Tressler

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the love story of Harry and Bess Truman

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harry got knocked off his feet the first time that he saw bess
a little boy too nervous to speak to a/the girl in her sunday dress
Her mom thought she was out of his league, he wouldnt give up so fast
harry truman got the girl of his dreams thirty years after that

they were two lovebirds
singing a song with no words
it goes la da da da da da da

before he left to fight in the war, she gave him a photograph
he carried it over his heart, felt it with every breath
she prayed for him to come home, he wrote her every day
the hero hung up his uniform and they got married right away

newlywed lovebirds
singing a song with no words
it goes la da da da da da da

she generally kept to herself, burned/destroyed everything she wrote
bess kept all of his letters, they could fill a book
they might have looked like old fashioned squares, but when truman was president
they must have been knocking their boots like a couple of kids, they broke the white house bed

just a couple lovebirds
singing a song with no words
it goes la da da da da da da

and they only ever owned one home
the same nest where bess had grown up
the truman’s raised a little girl there
now maggie’s on her own, she’s grown up
it was obvious they would go back
the lovebirds returned to grow old there

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from First Ladies, released May 28, 2021

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