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GREETINGS
FROM ASBURY PARK, N.J.

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Blinded by the Light
. Growin' Up
. Mary Queen of Arkansas
. Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
. Lost In the Flood
. The Angel
. For You
. Spirit In the Night
. It's Hard to be A Saint In the City
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Mary
Queen of Arkansas
Mary
Queen of Arkansas, it's not too early for dreamin'
The sky is grown with cloud seed sown and a bastard's love can be redeeming
Mary, my queen, your soft hulk is reviving
No, you're not too late to desecrate, the servants are just rising.
Well I'm just a lonely acrobat, the live wire is my trade
I've been a shine boy for your acid brat and a wharf rat of your state
Mary, my queen, your blows for freedom are missing
You're not man enough for me to hate or woman enough for kissing.
The
big top is for dreamers, we can take the circus all the way to the border
And the gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order
But I was not born to live to die and you were not born for queenin'
It's not too late to infiltrate, the servants are just leavin'.
Mary
Queen of Arkansas, your white skin is deceivin'
You wake and wait to lie in bait and you almost got me believin'
But on your bed Mary I can see the shadow of a noose
I don't understand how you can hold me so tight and love me so damn loose.
But I know a place where we can go Mary
Where I can get a good job and start all over again clean
I got contacts deep in Mexico where the servants have been seen.
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O
primeiro disco de Bruce Springsteen editado em 1973, numa altura
em que houve a tentação (por parte da editora, Columbia)
de criar um "novo Bob Dylan".
Tal não viria a acontecer, como mais tarde o futuro veio a
demonstrar, apesar deste disco ser essencialmente folk. |
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