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by The Extraordinaires


Ikua - The Extraordinaires

by Robert Mosolgo

Verse 1
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Well I received my father's name and I wear it like a pin
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He received his father's name like his father before him
                             
So I'll just go on wearing this around
                                 
And show it off in every single town

                                                        
And I'll climb this tree and let my legs hang free until I find
             
the root of my family line.

(Now walk up the bass line from G to D, then play Eb D)

Verse 2:
Well I may be a city rat but cowboy's in my blood 
Ridin round on horseback with a lasso just because
IKUA PURDY 
A living breathing legend in his time
And I'll wrap this sandwich up in cellophane until we ride
Into my family's horizon line

Bridge:
                  
He went roaming in Wyoming 
                     
horseback riding and cattle roping
                      
he roped that steer in record time
                                  
they saw him as an outcast till he showed them how to ride


Ending:

So I say, 
             
I K U A P U R D Y
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A living breathing legend in his ti i ime