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Knockin' On Joe
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
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These chains of sorrow, they are heavy, it is true
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And these locks cannot be broken,
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no, not with one thousand keys
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O Jailer, you drag a ball--chain you cannot see
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You can lay your burden on me
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You can lay your burden down on me
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You can lay your burden down upon me
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But you cannot lay down your memory
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Woooo wooo wooo
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Woooo wooo wooo
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Here I go!
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Knockin on Joe!
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This square foot of sky will be mine til I die
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Knocking on Joe
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Woooo wooo wooo
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All down the row
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Knockin on Joe
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O Warden I surrender to you
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Your fists can't hurt me anymore
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You know, these hands will never mop
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your dirty Death Row floors
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O Preacher, come closer, you don't scare me anymore
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Just tell Nancy not to come here
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Just tell her not to come here anymore
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Tell Nancy not to come
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And let me die in the memory of those arms
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O woo woo woo
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Woo woo woo
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All down the row
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Knockin on Joe
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O you kings of halls and ends of halls
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You will die within these walls
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And I'll go, down the row
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Knockin on Joe
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O Nancy's body is a coffin,
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she wears my tombstone at her head
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O Nancy's body is a coffin,
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she wears my tombstone at her head
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She wears her body like a coffin
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She wears a dress of gold and red
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She wears a dress of gold and red
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She wears a dress of red and gold
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Grave-looters at my coffin
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before my body's even cold
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It's a door for when I go
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Knockin on Joe
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These hands will never mop
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your dirty Death Row floors
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No! You can hide! You can run!
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O but your trial is yet to come
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O you can run! You can hide!
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But you have yet to be tried!
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You can lay your burdens down here
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You can lay your burden down
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Knockin on Joe
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You can lay your burden upon me
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You can lay your burden upon me
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Knockin on Joe
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You can lay it down here
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You can bring your burden down
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Knockin on Joe
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You can't hurt me anymore
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You can't hurt me anymore
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Knockin on Joe
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