Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well, it's closing time,
I'm trying to beat the clock
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as fast as her talk
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When up lifts a crippled woman
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My, my, isn't that sick?
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The dead, of course, and the quick
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C
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And the dead, of course, stand naked
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With their backs against the wall
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Now, there's two ways you can have it,
son, she said
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Mine or not at all
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She'd thrown away her crutches,
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but I knew that I'd need mine
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where the palm tree meets the pine
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She was a much older woman,
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you can always tell by the shoes
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She dealt in fools and gamblers,
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and boys who made the news
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Her body smelled like rose,
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look, her nails were sharp and long
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Her heart, said, was an open book,
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and on every page a song.
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C
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So I helped her with her braces,
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said the pleasure was all mine.
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In Northern California,
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Up in Northern California
Em
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Where the palm tree meets the pine
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Like all of us, she had her dreams
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But I knew I'd lost the handle
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When she softly sighed, let's dance
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She loved me like she knew I was
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And I'd long to run
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And in the morning when I woke
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I was the crippled one
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D
So I left her as I'd found her
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Right in the neck of time
In Northern California,
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where the palm tree meets the pine.
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Yep, in Northern California,
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where the palm tree
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meets the pine.
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