Tonalité : E major
Verse 1
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1, 2, 3, 4
They're selling tickets to the hangin'
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Jack Hechey wears a brown
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The beauty parlor's filled with sailors
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Jim Crow is back in town
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Here comes the one -eyed captain,
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the drinking's in a trance
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One hand is touching heaven,
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the other stuffed down his pants
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And the riot squad, they're restless,
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G
they need somewhere to go
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A
As somehow whistles his broken tune
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from desolation road
The goodest girl she seems so easy
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She says her fleece is white as snow
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And puts her hands in her apron pockets
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A silver ring in her nose
And in comes a lonesome cowboy
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He's singin' Kaleidschik,
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I believe
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Someone says you're in the wrong place,
my friend
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You'd better leave
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And the only sound that's left
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After the ambulance goes
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His father's head speak
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ing truth from desolation's
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Now Madonna's face is almost hidden
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She turns and walks aside
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The fortune -telling lady
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has blown her cover wide
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All except for Downey and
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Thomas and Judas Iscariot
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Everybody's making love
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or else expecting rain
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As they have hunched the white whale
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and the deep blue indigo
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Creekway's gone,
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went to the carnival tonight
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on Desolation Road
The devil's neath the window,
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but he feels right afraid
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Since he fell from heaven,
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he's been sunken on a blade
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To him death is quite romantic,
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he wears a silver crest
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His profession's his religion,
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his sin is his forgetfulness
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And JFK's wearing lipstick
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Borrowed from Marilyn Monroe
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Y 'all see them dance with Dr.
Death
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On Desolation Road
Dostoyevsky smiles to Go -Go
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Who's scratching at his dread
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Bushman passed an hour ago
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Proclaiming Jesus saved
He caught his moustache immaculate
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As he burned a cigarette
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Before calling up the Mona Lisa
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Into a spaghetti alphabet
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G
The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow
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The minstrel told me so
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You're seeing panhandling
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for dimes tonight
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On Desolation Row
Dr. Phil, he keeps his word
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Inside of a leather cup
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But all his sexless patients
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They try to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local hooker
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She's in charge of the Sinai Hall
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And she marks all the
cards that she reads
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Have mercy on his soul
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They all play on the penny whistle
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You can hear them blow
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If you lean your head out far enough
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from Desolation Road
They've nailed shut all the curtains
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Someone call the police
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Howlin' Wolf is standin' there,
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the perfect image of a priest
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They're spoon -feedin' Jack Johnson
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to get him to feel more self -assured
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A
Then they'll kill him with
self -confidence
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after poisonin' him with words
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And the phantom shouts to the skinny girls,
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get out of here if you don't know
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Cassius is just being punished
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by going to desolation road
At midnight, all the angels
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that from the heavens flew
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Tore manor and up
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everyone that knows more than they do
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Then they bring them to the factory
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With a hollow jack machine
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It's strapped across their shoulders
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And then the kerosene
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Is brought down from the castle
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G
By insurance men who go
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Check to see that no one's escaping
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to Desolation Row
You say you got the wise blood
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in the rosy -fingered door
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Everybody is shouting,
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which side are you on?
Odysseus and John Fante
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are fighting in the captain's tower
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While the lotus eaters laugh in beds
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and the fishermen hold out flowers
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Between the windows of the sea
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G
where the lovely mermaids float
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And nobody has to think too much
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about desolation and rogue
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Yes, I received your letter yesterday
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About the time we're done, I'm broke
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When you asked me how I was doing
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Was that some kind of joke
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All these people that you mention
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Yes, I know them, they're all quite lame
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I had to rearrange their faces
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And give them all another name
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Right now I can't read too good
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Don't send me no more letters, no
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Not unless you mail them off
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Desolation Road
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