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The Hitchhikers' Song
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Joan Baez
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(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
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When the mist rolls in on Highway One
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Like a curtain to the day
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A thousand silhouettes hold out their thumbs
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And I see them and I say
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You are my children
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My sweet children
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I am your poet.
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With hair just like the burning tree of Moses
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The girl beside you is your twin
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Behind your fiery make-up you should know this
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I am your sister, I am your kin, your flesh and kin
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I'll write this tune
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In matching phrases
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Just to show it
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You are the orphans in an age
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Of no tomorrows
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And with your walking you wage a war
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Against the sorrows
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Your fathers left you
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A row to hoe
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And you'll hoe it.
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If I could write you easy directions
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On a list
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You would not read it, you could not see it
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For the mist
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Besides my pen is
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Very righteous
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And I know it.
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So walk to the edges of a dying kingdom
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There's one more summer just around the bend
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The amber in your smile is brave and winsome
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For though your highway has no end, it never ends
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There is still the sky
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The windy cliff
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And the sea below it
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I'd take an angel's ram horn trumpet
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And I'd blow it
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I'd blow it.
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© 1970, 1971 Chandos Music (Ascap)
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