The young  New Mexican puppeteer    (video)

 

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1.    In a town near Albequerqe

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    lived a most concerned young boy,

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    he said lately I have noticed

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    folks don't live with peace and joy.

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    With frowns and worry in their faces

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    they're lost and don't know where to go,

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    he said, I'll get the people straightened

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    by putting on a puppet show.

 

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The young New Mexican puppeteer, he saw the people all lived in fear,

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he thought that maybe they'd listen to, a puppet telling them what to do.

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You know he got some string and he got some wood,

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he did some carving and he was good,

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and folks came running so they could hear,

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the young New Mexican puppeteer.

 

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3.      First he carved out young Abe Lincoln,

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    Abe will teach 'em civil rights,

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    then a king named Martin Luther,

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    so they'd recall his peaceful fight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    Old Mark Twain, his wit and wisdom

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    will surely show them life is fun,

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    but he smiled with satisfaction,

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    when the prince of peace was done.

 

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3.    Now his puppet shows were clever,

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    and he made the people laugh,

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    when he got across the message

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    to walk along love’s open path.

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    They built him his own puppet theatre.

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    decked out with spotlights yellow and red,

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    and then they wrote him up in all the papers,

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    and this is what the story said.

 

+  CHORUS (2x)      + repeat CHORUS as instrumental ….

 

    (Tom Jones)