Key: C major
Intro 1
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C
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Verse 1
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mouth in the missionary times,
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And your eyes like smoke and
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your prayers like rhymes,
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And your silver cross,
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and your voice like chimes,
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really think could bury you?
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With your pockets well
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protected at last,
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And your streetcar visions which
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you place on the grass,
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And your flesh like silk,
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and your face like glass,
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and who among them would try
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Verse 2
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Dm
Where sad- eyed prophets
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Verse 3
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With your sheets like leather
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and your belt like lace,
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And your deck of cards missing
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the jack and the ace,
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And your basement clothes
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and your hollow face,
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Who among them would really
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try to outguess you?
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With your silhouette when
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the sunlight dims
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In to your eyes where
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the moonlight swims,
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And your match- book songs
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and your gypsy hymns,
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Who among them would try
Verse 4
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Where sad- eyed prophets
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Verse 5
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My warehouse eye s and
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Dm
my Arabian drums,
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Shall I bring them to your gate,
Or, sad- eyed lady, should I wait?
C
Verse 6
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convict lists
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They're waiting in line for
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their geranium kiss,
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And you would not think it
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would happen like this,
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Dm
And who among them really wants
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just to kiss you? Kiss you!
Am
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With your childhood flames
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and your midnight rug,
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And your Spanish manners and
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your mother's drugs,
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And your cowboy mouth
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and your curfew plugs,
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And who among them do you think
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could resist you? Resist you!
Verse 7
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Sad- eyed lady from the lowlands,
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Where sad- eyed prophets
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say that no man comes,
Verse 8
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Oh, the farmers and the businessmen,
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they all did decide
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To show you the dead an gels
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which they all used to hide.
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But why did they pick you to
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C
sympathize with their side?
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Dm
And how could they ever, ever,
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For they wished you accepted
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the blame for the farmer,
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With the sea at your feet and
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the phony false alarm,
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And the child of a hoodlum
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C
wrapped up in your arms,
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Oh how could they ever, ever,
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ever persuade you? Persuade you!
Verse 9
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Sad- eyed lady of the lowland,
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Where sad- eyed prophets say
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Verse 10
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My warehouse eyes,
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Dm
G
Dm
my Arabian drums,
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Shall I leave them at your gate,
Or, sad- eyed lady, should I wait?
C
Verse 11
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Dm
My warehouse eyes,
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Dm
G
Dm
my Arabian drums,
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Dm
Shall I bring them to your gate,
Or, sad- eyed lady, should I wait?
C
Verse 12
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Oh my sad warehouse eyes
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G
Dm
and my Arabian drums
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Dm
Shall I bring them to your gate,
Or, sad- eyed lady, should I wait?
C
Verse 13
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Hey hey my ware my warehouse eyes,
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my Arabian drums (fade)
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