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Manhattan Transfer
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Wait'll y'dig it on the map - Airegin
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Spelled backwards
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Really're closin' up the gap - Airegin
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Gone fac'wards
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Back long time ago they saw a ghost
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Ghost made a boast
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Soon that ghost was host
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(Repeat first 8 bars)
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Those losing their hue
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They goofed ' got the wrong view
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First, things reverse, last is first!
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Y' dig it!
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Whatta' y' think o'that' get a load a'
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What I tell y'
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What this place is no one knows it
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There's no traces of the kind o'place it was
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Before it got "discovered" by the kind o'
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Cat that knows the earth belongs t'him
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Back when the world was young
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An' man was a living god
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An' he walked this earthly sod
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This was sod that god would trod on
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Till one day a stranger landed
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With a line o'jive
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Laid it on the natives till he had 'em thinkin'
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Maybe that they should really take five
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An' he quickly stole the natives' soul
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So he could control it
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An' he took care of that missionary biz
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Till the lan' was his
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Never heard a story draggy as that
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Tell th' truth I ain't never heard another
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That exasperated more
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What an exasperating narrative t'play
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Upon the sensitive and kindly soul that I am
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'Way back when I was crawlin' in m'crib
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I was doin' all kinds o'thinkin'
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Aw'ready I had figured out the 'cut of m'jib'
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The kind o'soul that never liked t'tell 'r live a fib
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A body who was steadily reachin' up
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A min' always thinkin' on high-minded things
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Whee! I was always one t'be free
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Ain't never had a keeper why don't people
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Learn t'git along t'gether stead o'
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Meddlin' aroun' ' fussin' with the fella nearest to 'em
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Me, I'm the old fashioned kind
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I was never good at follow-the-leader
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Real real real real real real real
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That's me, as real as a Yankee can be
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That's me
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Millions o' years ago
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There was a Paleolithic age on Earth
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An' the whole world was young
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And full o'the vim of constant rebirth
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Brontosauruses ' dinosaurs ' pterodactyls
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Ever'where abounding that was the case
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'N plus the millions o' mammoths here ' there
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An' in addition there were lots o'men everywhere
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Who had no hi-tech and no intellect 'nary a speck
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But in that spot
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Where it was so lush, where it was so hot
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Where many animal was roamin'
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An' nature was kind, life was thrivin'
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There livin' was actual an' the feelin' was natural
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I'm tellin' the truth
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What-a-benign livin' some livin'
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All's forgiven come on home
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Blew a truly unruly storm
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That wrecked a boat in a climate warm
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'N full o'ashy-colored cats all lookin'
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White like ghosts
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'N when the natives checked 'em out
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It blew 'em away t'find that they resembled spirits
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Long ago there was a legend
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'Bout a spirit who would someday come
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A look at these cats
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'N y' could see they prob'ly had some
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So they welcomed 'em with peace and love
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And everything there's plenty of
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'N soon the tables had turned to rigormortis
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That's when the castaway had his say
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Like a dog had his day they told the
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People that they were spirits actual
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Y'see how perfectly a fable c' be
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Incorporated into what a cat'll think is factual
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What was an accident turns int' something
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So unbelievably heaven-sent
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Everybody falls for it
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Right on down t' the militants
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'N marchin' ' the martyrs ' the murder of Lumumba
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Wait'll y'dig it on the map - Airegin
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Spelled backwards
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Really're closin' up the gap - Airegin
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Gone fac'wards
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Back long time ago they saw a ghost
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Ghost made a boast
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Soon that ghost was host
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Wait'll y'dig it on the map - Airegin
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Spelled backwards
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Really're closin' up the gap - Airegin
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Gone fac'wards
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Those losing their hue
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They goofed ' got the wrong view
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First, things reverse, last is first!
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Y' dig it!
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