The fabled city
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1. Me and Javier shouted slogans in Spanish
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like
it was our world to win,
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then
they move a plant down Ojada,
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time
to bite your tongue again.
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I've seen the fabled city, it's streets are
paved with gold,
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but an iron fence runs round it,
it's iron gate is closed.
+ Em - D - Em - G (2x)
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G
2. What ain't right ain't
right he told me,
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but
something else passed behind his eyes.
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Now he's downtown on his knees
washing floors for somebody,
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and
quietly biding his time.
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I've seen the fabled city, it's streets are
paved with gold,
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but an iron fence runs round it,
it's iron gate is closed.
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(2x) + G - D - G - D + Em - D - Em - G
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3. The gas station on Sunset and Crescent
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I met an angel, sad and old,
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she
lived in the alley behind the market
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in
the shadows may be hidden from the Lord.
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And for a dollar she sang a
song,
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sounded
more like a prayer,
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a
wish that her dead mother and father
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couldn't
look down and see her there.
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I've seen the fabled city, it's streets are
paved with gold,
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but an iron fence runs round it,
it's iron gate is closed.
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- D - Em - G
(2x)
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+ On a wire outside my
window there sit one hundred swallows,
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and I
suspect that if one flew, then
ninety-nine would follow.
(orig. = capo 4th) (The Nightwatchman)