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Wilco Mermaid Avenue

: If you beat up, you butcher, and you bleed a man You bang up and badger and blood-let a man And then I come along On the feet of man And halfway laugh

: I was born at half past twelve, almost one in the morning I was born at half past one, almost two in the morning Now my birthday comes again and I

: Are your garments all spotless? Are they white as the snow? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Is your soul all spotless? Is it clean as the

: Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves? Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds? You laughed as

: Joe DiMaggio's done it again Joe DiMaggio's done it again Clackin' that bat, gone with the wind Joe DiMaggio's done it again Some folks thought Big

: There's an airline plane Flies to heaven everyday Past the pearly gates If you want to ride this train Have your ticket in your hand Before it is

: If the folks next door to me weren't so good I'd do all the mean things anybody could I'd drink and I'd gamble and I'd louse around I'd be the meanest

: I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight On a bed of California stars I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight On a bed of California stars I'd love to

: Hoodoo voodoo, seven twenty one two Haystacka hostacka, ABC High poker, low joker, ninety-nine-a-zero Sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance Blackbirdy