Key: E major
Verse 1
They're selling tickets to the hangin'
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Jack Hechey wears a brown
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the drinking's in a trance
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the other stuffed down his pants
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they need somewhere to go
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As somehow whistles his broken tune
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from desolation road
The goodest girl she seems so easy
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She says her fleece is white as snow
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A silver ring in her nose
And in comes a lonesome cowboy
my friend
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You'd better leave
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His father's head speak
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ing truth from desolation's
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She turns and walks aside
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Everybody's making love
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or else expecting rain
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Creekway's gone,
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on Desolation Road
The devil's neath the window,
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Since he fell from heaven,
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His profession's his religion,
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And JFK's wearing lipstick
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Y 'all see them dance with Dr.
Death
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On Desolation Road
Dostoyevsky smiles to Go -Go
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Bushman passed an hour ago
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Proclaiming Jesus saved
He caught his moustache immaculate
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Before calling up the Mona Lisa
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The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow
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You're seeing panhandling
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On Desolation Row
Dr. Phil, he keeps his word
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But all his sexless patients
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They try to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local hooker
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She's in charge of the Sinai Hall
cards that she reads
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They all play on the penny whistle
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You can hear them blow
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If you lean your head out far enough
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from Desolation Road
They've nailed shut all the curtains
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Someone call the police
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Then they'll kill him with
self -confidence
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after poisonin' him with words
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get out of here if you don't know
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Cassius is just being punished
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by going to desolation road
At midnight, all the angels
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that from the heavens flew
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It's strapped across their shoulders
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And then the kerosene
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By insurance men who go
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Check to see that no one's escaping
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to Desolation Row
You say you got the wise blood
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in the rosy -fingered door
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which side are you on?
Odysseus and John Fante
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are fighting in the captain's tower
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and the fishermen hold out flowers
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where the lovely mermaids float
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And nobody has to think too much
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about desolation and rogue
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Yes, I received your letter yesterday
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When you asked me how I was doing
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Yes, I know them, they're all quite lame
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And give them all another name
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Not unless you mail them off
Outro 1
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