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you know, 'cause it's important
that you sing these songs.
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He sang songs that affected us.
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Well, it ain't no use to sit
and wonder why, babe
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If'n you don't know by now
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And it ain't no use to sit
and wonder why, babe
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It'll never do, somehow
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When your rooster crows
at the break of dawn
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Look out your window and I'll be gone
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You're the reason I'm travelin' on
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But don't think twice, it's all right
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Neither one of us had a fixed place to live,
we were both a bit nomadic.
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So we kind of had
this private little existence, in a way.
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I am leading a quiet life
on Lower East Broadway
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I was an American
I am an American boy
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I read The American Boy magazine
and became a Boy Scout in the suburbs
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I thought I was Tom Sawyer,
catching crayfish in the Bronx River
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and imagining the Mississippi
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I had a baseball mitt
and an American Flyer bike
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Everything was meshed up at that time.
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Everything was like just all in like a blender.
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Everyone was interested
in whatever was going on.
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I stayed at a lot of people's houses
which had poetry books...
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and poetry volumes...
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and I'd read what I found...
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I found Verlaine poems or Rimbaud...
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you know, "Drunken Boat," Illuminations.
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Whether it was these wild and crazy poets
that were getting up on stage...
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or whether it was a musician
playing some riff in a jazz club...
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or some bluegrass guy,
some old roots music...
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it filters through you, you speak them when
they come out verbally and you play them.
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We were doing things totally instinctively.
It was an instinctive awakening.
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Lightning strikes every once in a while,
in a different place.