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Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
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Joan Baez
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With your mercury mouth in the missionary times
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Your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes
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And your silver cross and your voice like chimes
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Who do they think could bury you?
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With your pockets well protected at last
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And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass
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And your flesh like silk and your face like glass
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Who could they get to ever carry you?
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Sad eyed lady of the lowlands
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Where the sad eyed prophet say that, "No man comes"
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My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
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Should I leave them by your gate?
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Or sad eyed lady, should I wait?
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With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace
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And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace
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And your basement clothes and your hollow face
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Who among them to think he could outguess you?
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With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
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Into your eyes where the moonlight swims
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And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns
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Who among them would try to impress you?
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Sad eyed lady of the lowlands
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Where the sad eyed prophet say that, "No man comes"
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My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
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Should I leave them by your gate?
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Or sad eyed lady, should I wait?
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The kings of Tyrus with their convict list
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Are waiting in line for their geranium kiss
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And you wouldn't know, it would happen like this
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But who among them really wants just to kiss you
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With your childhood flames on your midnight rug
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And your Spanish manners and your mother's drugs
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And your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs
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Who among them do you think could resist you?
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Sad eyed lady of the lowlands
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Where the sad eyed prophet say that, "No man comes"
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My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
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Should I leave them by your gate?
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Or sad eyed lady, should I wait?
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he farmers and the businessmen, they all did decide
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To show you the dead angels that they used to hide
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But why did they pick you to sympathize with their side?
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How could they ever mistake you?
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They wished you'd accepted the blame for the farm
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But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm
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And with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms
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How could they ever, ever persuade you?
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Sad eyed lady of the lowlands
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Where the sad eyed prophet say that, "No man comes"
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My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
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Should I leave them by your gate?
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Or sad eyed lady, should I wait?
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With your sheet metal memory of Cannery Row
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And your magazine husband who one day just had to go
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And your gentleness now which you just can't help but show
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Who among them do you think would employ you?
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Now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole
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With your holy medallion in your fingers now that rolls
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And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul
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Who among them could ever think he could destroy you?
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Sad eyed lady of the lowlands
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Where the sad eyed prophet say that, "No man comes"
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My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
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Should I leave them by your gate?
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Or sad eyed lady, should I wait?
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