John Doe No. 24 chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Verse 1
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I was standing on this sidewalk
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In 1945 in Jacksonville,
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Illinois
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When asked what my name was
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there came     no reply
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They said I was a deaf and sightless,
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half-wit boy

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boy
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But Lewis was my name though I
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could    not say it
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I was born and  raised in New
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Orleans
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My spirit was wild,
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so       I let the river take it
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On a barge and a prayer
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upstream

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They searched for a mother and
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they searched for a father
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And they searched till they
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searched no more
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The doctors put to rest
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their scientific    test
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And they named me John
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Doe No. 24
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And they all shook their heads

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in pity
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For a world so silent an       d dark
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that     life's a mystery
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But so too is the human heart
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And it was my

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heart's
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own perfume
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When the crape jasmine  bloomed on St.
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Charles Avenue
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Though I couldn't hear the bells
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of the streetcars coming
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By toeing the track I knew
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I  were an old
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man returning
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hat
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I'd hit every jazz joint on Bourbon
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And I'd hit every one on Basin after    that

Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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The years kept passing as they
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passed me around
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From one state ward to       another
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Like I was an orphaned shoe from
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the lost and found
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Always missing the other

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They gave me a harp last Christmas
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And all the nurses took a
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dance
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Lately I've been growing listless
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Been dreaming again of
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the past
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I'm wandering

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down to the banks
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of the Great Big Muddy
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Where the shotgun houses  stand
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I am seven years old and
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I feel   my daddy
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Reach out for my hand

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While I  drew breath no
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one missed me
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So they won't on the day
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that I cease
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Put a sprig of crape jasmine with me
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To remind me of New Orleans
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I was standing on

this sidewalk

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In 1945 in Jacksonville, Illinois

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