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Flower Lady
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Phil Ochs
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G C G C G G C G
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Millionaires and paupers walk the hungry streets
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C G D
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Rich and poor companions of the restless beat
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Bm C
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Strangers in a foreign land
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Bm C
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Strike a match with trembling hand
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Bm Em C
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Learn too much to ever understand
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D C D G C G
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But nobody's buying flowers from the flower lady
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Lover's quarrel, snarl away their happiness
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Kissed crumble in a web of lonliness
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It's written by the poison pen
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Voices break before they bend
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The door is slammed
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It's over, once again
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But nobody's buying flowers from the flower lady
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Poets agonize, they cannot find the words
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And the stone stares at the sculptor asks "are you absurd?"
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The painter paints his brushes back
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Through the canvas runs a crack
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Portrait of the pain never answers back
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But nobody's buying flowers from the flower lady
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Soldiers, disillusioned, come home from the war
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Sarcastic students tell them not to fight no more
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And they argue through the night
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Black is black and white is white
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Walk away both knowing they are right
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But nobody's buying flowers from the flower lady
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Smoke dreams of escaping souls are drifting by
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Dull the pain of living as they slowly die
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Smiles change into a sneer
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washed away by whiskey tears
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In the quicksand of their mind they disappear
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Still nobody's buying flowers from the flower lady
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Feeble, aged, people almost to their knees
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Complain about the present using memories
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Never found their pot of gold
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Wrinkled hands pound weary holes
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Each line screams out you're old, you're old, you're old
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But nobody's buying flowers from the flower lady
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And the flower lady hobbles home without a sale
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Tattered shreds of petals leave a fading trail
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Not a pause to hold a rose
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Even she no longer knows
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The lamp goes out the evening now is closed
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And nobody's buying flowers from the flower lady
Phil Ochs - Flower Lady (Live)
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