When We Were Kings

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# Every man will know

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# We will raise our hands

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# We will touch the sky

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# Together we will dance
in robes of gold

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# And we will leave
the world remembering

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# When we were kings

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# When we were kings

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# Ooh

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# When we were kings

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# Yeah

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# When we were kings

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# Float like a butterfly

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# Sting like a bee

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# Float like a butterfly

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# I remember... #

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Years after the fight in Zaire,
perhaps ten years after,

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I'd run into Ali on occasion after
that, but I remember this meeting.

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Esquire was giving a party
for various people

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who had distinguished themselves
in Esquire that year.

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Ali, for whatever he'd done,

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I was there probably because I had
a good story in Esquire that year,

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maybe 25 of us, honoured guests,

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I was there with my wife
and we saw Ali

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and we were talking with him

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and he couldn't have been nicer.

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I remember I was 62 then,
cos he said, "How old are you now?"

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I said "62," he said "Oh," same as
when we were jogging that night,

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"Oh, I hope I'm as young as you are
when I'm 62," he went on like that.

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I got so pleased and so vain that,
you know, I'm like a dog.

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What did I have to do?
I had to go urinate, and I did.

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I went away and once I was gone
he turned to my wife,

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who's much younger than I am,
and he looked at her hard and said,

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"You still with that old man?"