Nanci Griffith - Ballad of Robin Winter-Smith

      
 
 (Richard Dobson)
 Once in a Very Blue Moon
 1984
 
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 Mamma's in the kitchen rattlin' pans and the baby cries,
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 on the TV news, somebody died
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 He was a crazy biker in a motorcycle ridin' daredevil show,
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 in Merry England, oh, twenty seven years old
 
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 He was tryin' to break the record,
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 for jumpin' over cars, he was the champ
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 He fell a little bit short oh, hit the ramp
 
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 This is the story, sad and it's gory of Robin Winter-Smith
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 He was a very brave man if you get my drift
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 'Cause he waved to the crowd, headed down the runway like
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 a man possessed, Robin Winter-Smith, I guess he did his best
 
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 I make a livin' a-playin' these songs and I hang out in bars
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 I play my guitar, oh but honey, I don't jump over cars
 
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 Mamma's in the kitchen rattlin' pans and the baby cries,
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 on the TV news, somebody died
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 He was a crazy biker in a motorcycle ridin' daredevil show,
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 in Merry England, oh, twenty seven years old
 
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 17 February 2014
 
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