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Tape From California
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Phil Ochs
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Who's that coming down the road
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D A
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A sailor from the sea
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D F#m
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He looks a lot like me
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E G E
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I'd know him anywhere, had to stare
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Feathers at his fingertips
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D A
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A halo 'round his spine
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D F#m
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he must have lost his mind
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E G
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he should be put away, right away
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C#m
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In the corner of the night
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D Bm
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he handed me his waterpipe
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F#m Bm E
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His eyes were searching deep inside my head
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Here's what he said
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Am
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Sorry I can't stop and talk now
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D
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I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
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C G A E
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But I'll send you a tape from California
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New York city has exploded and it's crashed upon my head
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I dove beneath the bed
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Fighting, biting nails, turning pale
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The landlord's at my window
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And the burglar's at my door
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I can't take it anymore
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I guess I'll have to fly, it's worth a try
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Someone's banging on the wall
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But there's no party to recall
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The singer of the shadows of his soul
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So he's been told
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Sorry I can't stop and talk now
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I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
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But I'll send you a tape from California
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D C D C
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From the mirror of my mantle to the velvet on my bed
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D C Am E
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Trapped upon a stolen stage, a Barrymore at best(?)
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A G A G
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My rhymes are all repeating, ballads growing blind
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G#m A F#m B7 E
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Words have turned to water, the women turned to wine
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The draft board is debating if they'd like to take my life
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I'd sooner take a wife and have raise a child or two
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Wouldn't you?
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Peace has turned to poison
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The flag has blown a fuse
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Even courage is confused
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And now all the brave are in the grave
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Century is bending(?)
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have a very happy ending
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To the victor go the ashes of the spoil
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Seeds in the soil
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Sorry I can't stop and talk now
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I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
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But I'll send you a tape from California
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The flower-power fuller brush man
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is farming out his friends
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I stabbed him with my stem
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And then I tapped his toes with my rose
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He crawled around inside himself
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Now he's crawling after me
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Dropping acid in my tea
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He wants to save his soul
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rock and roll
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One of us must understand
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It's not the drug that makes the man
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Then a poster of a movie star walked by
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He must have been high
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Sorry I can't stop and talk now
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I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
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But I'll send you a tape from California
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Half the world is crazy and the other half is scared
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Maddonas do the minuet for the naked millionaires
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The anarchists are rising while we're racing for the moon
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It doesn't take a seer to see that the scene is coming soon
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So who's that coming down the road
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A sailor from the sea
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He looks a lot like me
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I'd know him anywhere
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Had to stare
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A fire around his fingertips
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A song around his spine
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He must have found his mind
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He should be put away
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Anyway
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Surrounded by the slaughter
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Now I'm boarding(?) at the border
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When the echoes of my ecstacy appear
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Wish I was here
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Sorry I can't stop and talk now
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I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
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But I'll send you a tape from California
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