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Sharp Dave
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Hard Travellin
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Joey The Jone
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Heard a howling banshee
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On a funeral stone
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Was the sound of the children
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Weeping for one of their own
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The kid died in an instant
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Took a bullet in the back
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Shot from a .45 in a police attack
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Was a routine shakedown
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New Jersey was the place
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A quick right from the sin? is where
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The kid took it in the face
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Chorus:
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This is the killing of Joey the jone
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Innocent to the bone
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Now his name is cast in stone
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This is the killing
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The killing of Joey the jone
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There was a reverend and a doctor
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Shaking a mojo around
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Little children weeping tears
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As Joey was put in the ground
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They covered the kid with dust
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Nobody was digging the scene
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As the local social workers
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Moved in; looking mean
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Trying to smooth the anger
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Firing up the crowd
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Trying to get things back together
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Force the people underground
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Something's going on here
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What it is, nobody's sure
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The reverend prayed for guidance
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And the doctor's seeking a cure
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There's a plot smelt to the heavens?
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The whole town's hung in shame
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Blood on a whole generation
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Of a entire city insane
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And there's a bridge from coast to coast
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Linking people by the hand
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At a time when war
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Is being declared
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On the poor people of the land
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Chorus
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Now there's a whole lot of talk in the churches
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A whole lot of talk around the place
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The talk is talk, the talk is cheap
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And those who want to save face
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This school yard shakedown has got a whole bunch of folks on the run
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The reverend, the doctor hit the streets
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To see what could be done
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And at the funerals down town
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The bodies where under age
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And there were sermons spoken every night for to calm the peoples' rage
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Meanwhile after the killing
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At an all-night, candle-lit wake
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The hymn was 'no justice no peace,
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The powers that be are all fake'
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The crowd started a riot
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Police cars burned the streets
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There was a big fuss
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The reverend declared 'we've got to stop or we're all dead meat'
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Now the Lord came down
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Said 'Reverend get up off your knees
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And go to the powers and call out loud
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To stop this big city squeeze'
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Chorus
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Now the doctor said 'we've got to heal this place,
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It needs a heart to keep it alive
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You've got to speak if there's going to be change
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And the Reverend's going to tell you why'
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'Some say the crowds are a danger
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You see it every time they meet
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You might recall that Jesus was nailed by a crowd gathered in the street
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But if it's a question of justice
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Look them straight in the eye
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Say 'Who did the hanging, who did the swinging,
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And who was it for that he died?''
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Chorus
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