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Phil Ochs
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E D
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Do you have a problem,
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E D
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Would you like someone to solve them,
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E D B7
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Would you like someone to share in your misery?
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E A G A G
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Now, I don't know the answer, but I know a flamenco dancer
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A G B7
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Who will dance for you if you will dance for me
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Chorus:
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E A E
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Her name's Miranda
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F#M B7
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She's a Rudolph Valentino fan
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F#M B7
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And she doesn't claim to understand
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A D E
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She bakes brownies for the boys in the band.
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Early Sunday morning
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When the sermon lines are forming
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And Saturday night is the memories that it gave.
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She's busy in the pantry, far away from Elmer Gantry
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Who is busy baking souls that he may save.
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Everybody's soul but Miranda (Chorus)
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The dice of death are calling
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While the truck of time is falling
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By the thumb stuck out on the highway of the years.
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The tollgate at the turnpike is ignored by those who hitch-hike
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And the Howard Johnson food is made of fear
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But not Miranda (Chorus)
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The sun burnt skin is peeling
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On the dotors who are healing
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And the license plates are laughing on the car.
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The pain is so exciting
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And everyone's inviting
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You to look upon their operation scars.
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But not miranda (Chorus)
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The condiments are clashing
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While commercial planes are crashing
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And the music of the evening is so sweet
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Now fully in agreement
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Oh, their feet have found the cement
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And they all believe the signs are on the street
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Her name's Miranda (Chorus)
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In the bar we're gin and scotching
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While the FBI is watching
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They are tape recording every other word
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The bartender is bleeding
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Pardon me, I just was leaving
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As another clever voice repeats absurd
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But not Miranda (Chorus)
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(repeat first verse)
Phil Ochs — When I'm Gone
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