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Come on, just give me your hand and baby stop, trying so hard to understand.
Give just a little kiss, now come on and move a little closer and dance like this.
Hey baby, make me feel real good, can ya hear my motor purring under the hood.
I got a say, honey I like your style cause you look like a girl who likes to go a little wild.
I know there’s something special happening here cause I feel so special, when you’re so near.
Maybe we twist, and maybe we shout. Come on baby, lets work it on out.
Find a little thrill. The whole in the heart I think we can fill.
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I'm an engineer on a big black train, shoveling the coal feeding the flame
I fly right through the back of your town. My engine in the night makes a lonely, lonely sound.
Cain and Able they couldn't get along. Bonney and Clyde they were born to do wrong and David killed Goliath with his one smooth stone and ya don't get home sick if ya don't got a home.
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I gotta tear in the corner of my eye. Ain't ya ever seen a grown man cry. Gotta tear in the corner of my I. God puts in a jar and keeps 'em way up in the sky.
Pull on the chord and let the whistle moan. The tellagraph poles remind me I'm all alone. I've got the rhythm of the rails, a sky full of stars and scrape mettle in every single car
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Samson and Delilah were meant to be but every message in the bottle comes back to me. I wipe my tears with the back of my hand.
All I can do is the best that I can.
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Garden Of Delight
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Garden of Delight
My laundry’s clean, now I’m missing the dirt
Boiled a potato just to starch my shirt
Gave my wisdom to the fool with a broken tooth
All the petals open in the bloom of youth
I got soil from the garden of delight
Two pounds of tobacco in my organ pipe
I got a fortune when my mind caved in
Stuck my heart full of needles and pins
There’s a place I like to go
Walking the tracks with Cotton Eyed Joe
I wrapped Achilles then I strung his bow
I’ll harvest fields that I did not sow
She unraveled my sweater when she pulled the string
She said I’ll be your queen if you will be my king
I put a bullet in the pistol and spun the camber ‘round
They buried my lone in the cold, cold ground
A rock for a pillow and an angel by the stream
I wrestled her all night in my dreams
Will ya pull that cord and ring that bell
And send all these devils back to Hell
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I look back now I’m a pillar of salt
This time I know it’s all my fault
Dropping crumbs to mark the way
I keep seaching for the right words to say
Leather gloves and a barlow knife
Neighbors dog barking all through the night
My back pack, my fork and my spoon
I’m gonna jump rihgt over the moon
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The Wealthy Orphans Grand Rapids, Michigan
Playing music forged in the furnace of real life, the Wealthy Orphans open hearts and unzip heaven at the same time. Their songs are lite up with vivid imagery, haunted by enigmatic narratives that confuse as much as enlighten.
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