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Bob Dylan
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She was the rose of sharon from paradise lost
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From the city of seven hills near the place of the cross
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I was playing a show in miami in the theater of divine comedy
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Told about jesus, told about the rain
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She told me about the jungle where her brothers were slain
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By a man who danced on the roof of the embassy
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Was she a child or a woman, I can't say which
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From one to another she could to easily switch
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We went into the wall to where the long arm of the law could not reach
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Could I been used and played as a pawn?
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It certainly was possible as the gay night wore on
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Where men bathed in perfume and celebrated free speech
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And them caribbean winds still blow from nassau to mexico
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Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire
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And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free
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Bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire
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She looked into my soul through the clothes that I wore
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She said, "we got a mutual friend over by the door
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And you know he's got our best interest in mind."
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He was well connected but her heart was a snare
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And she had left him to die in there
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There were payments due and he was a little behind
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The cry of the peacock, flies buzz my head
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Ceiling fan broken, there's a heat in my bed
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Street band playing "nearer my God to thee."
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We met at the steeple where the mission bells ring
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She said, "i know what you're thinking, but there ain't a thing
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You can do about it, so let us just agree to agree."
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And them caribbean winds still blow from nassau to mexico
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Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire
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And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free
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Bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire
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Atlantic city by the cold grey sea
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I hear a voice crying, "daddy," I always think it's for me
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But it's only the silence in the buttermilk hills that call
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Every new messenger brings evil report
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'Bout armies on the march and time that is short
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And famines and earthquakes and hatred written upon walls
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Would I have married her? I don't know, I suppose
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She had bells in her braids and they hung to her toes
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But I kept hearing my name and I had to be movin' on
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I saw screws break loose, saw the devil pound tin
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I saw a house in the country being torn from within
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I heard my ancestors calling from the land far beyond
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And them caribbean winds still blow from nassau to mexico
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Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire
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And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free
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Bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire
Caribbean wind
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