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Joan Baez
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(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
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Ripping along towards middle age
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And my music career kind of missed a page
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Record sales began to drop
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The management all began to hop
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Not worry, they said, you'll see
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What you need is some fresh publicity
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Just give us a nod and we'll all leap
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Towards putting you back at the top of the heap
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I said, Fine, I'll give it a whack
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I hung up the phone and I turned my back
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Began daydreaming I was somebody else
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When the phone jumped over from the wall to the shelf
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We just had a break, this is really fine
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We can make the January issue of TIME
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If you'll give us Monday, a week from today
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From two to four, now what do you say?
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I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag
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You got me on the rag, rag
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Take your insults about the queen
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And shove them up your royal Timese machine
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But I scribbled it down on the wall calendar
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And wondered about my interviewer
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Maybe he'd be just a real nice guy
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Bright and sympathetic with a roving eye
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We'd forget all about the assignment due
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Formalities, photos, and the interview
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We'd hop on into his big rent-a-car
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Go for a lovely drive, not far....maybe France
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As the big day approached it slipped my mind
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Till my secretary showed up at the house to remind
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Me to switch into gear for the big coup de gras
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The meeting with the man from the media
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I swept the driveway and polished the phone
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Put on a Kenzo knit in two-tone
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Fluffed the pillows in the burgundy chair
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Made up my eyes and brushed my hair...all in that order
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When he called to say he was three hours late
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My cheerful facade began to disintegrate
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The photographer'd be even later still
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She was hopelessly lost in the nearby hills
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He arrived not exactly the man of my dreams
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Not bad for a rep from the Timese machine
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Asked me a wandering question or three
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And I thought he was actually listening to me
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And I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag
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You got me on the rag, rag
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Take your insults about the queen
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And shove them up your royal Timese machine
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Curious about his interest
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I babbled my way through the worldwide list
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Ireland, Chile and the African states
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Poetry, politics and how they relate
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Motherhood, music and Moog synthesizers
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Political prisoners and Commie sympathizers
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Hetero, homo and bisexuality
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Where they all stand in the nineteen-seventies
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Then suddenly it stopped and he started to lobby
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Said, Tell me some inside stuff about Bobby
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Bobby who? I smiled and said
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And the TIME man's face was laced with red
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I know you guys used to know each other
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I know you refer to him as being your brother
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And I know that you know where he's coming from
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I said, You know alot for being so Goddamned dumb
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And I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag
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You got me on the rag, rag
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Take your insults about the queen
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And shove them up your royal Timese machine
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Well I never gave him quite what he came for
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The inside story and it's really a shame
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For I never made the January issue of TIME
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And just before I run out of words that rhyme
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I really should tell you that deep in my heart
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I don't give a damn where I stand on the charts
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Not as long as the sun sinks into the west
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And that's going to be a pretty serious test.....of time
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (With Lyri...
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