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Calamity John
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Dar Williams
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Come lovers, come loners, remember yourselves
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As lusty tempestuous fools
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When your dream was to conquer an ocean
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From your small secretarial pools
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When you stood at the gulf of unknowing
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When you saw the great tundra of time
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And you cried for the winds to come blowing
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And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon
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'cause the roads were all dusty and dry
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Come lame dancing lonely tonight
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When what should appear in the distance
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Blown hither and yon it's calamity john
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And he's coming to sweep you away---aye I aye ayy
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He'll tear through the homefront, he'll lift you up laughing
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He'll blow every signpost away
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As the weather report says high drama
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With a five percent chance that he'll stay
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Now the floor starts to rock and the roof floats
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And your friends say he's bad for your health
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And they've warmed you about him on talk shows
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So you told him to pack, hit the road, don't come back
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And he says hey "don't flatter yourself" ....and you say.....
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I am closing my door to the storm
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I am saving myself from it's freedom
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I have put the chain on, oh calamity john
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I don't want you to dance me away---aye I aye ayy
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So it's seven months later you've bolted your hair back
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You're almost immune to the moon
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And at parties you stay in the kitchen
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Common sense with a big wooden spoon
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All at once you can feel the storm coming
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As you burst out into the old refrain
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To the sound of america drumming
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Call it pain, call it art, call it open your heart
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Let it go let it fly, let it rain(oh yeah)
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He smiles and the clouds turn to black
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With the wind through the flowers come blowing
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The warning bell's on, "what's your name, oh it's john",
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That's such an unusual name---aye I aye ayy
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