Paul Simon - Duncan

      
 
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 #From: cs902154@ariel.yorku.ca (RONALD W ENGLISH)
 #Subject: Re: Need Lyrics/Chords: DUNCAN (Paul Simon)
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 #In article <1992Aug27.165056.3190@midway.uchicago.edu> hasn@midway.uchicago.edu (Sheheryar Hasnain) writes:
 #>I really do!
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 Couple in the next room Bound to win a prize they've been
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 goin' at it all night long Well I'm tryin to get some sleep but these
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 motel walls are cheep Lincoln Duncan is my name and here's my
 D              Em  
 song here's my song
 
 
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 My father was a fisherman my mama was a fisherman's friend And
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 I was born in the boredom and the chowder So
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 when I reached my prime I left my home in the maritimes
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 headed down the turnpike for New England
 
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 Holes in my confidence holes in the knees of my jeans I's
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 left without a penny in my pocket Oo hoo hoo wee I's a - bout
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 destituted as a kid could be And I wish I wore a ring so I could
 D                   Em     
 hock it I'd like to hock it
 
 
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 A young girl in a parking lot was preachin to a crowd singin.
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 sacred songs and reading from the bible Well I
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 told her I was lost and she told me all about the Pentecost And I
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 seen that girl as the road to my surviv - - - - - - al
 
 

 
 
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 Just latter on the very same night when I
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 crept to her tent with a flashlight and my long years of innocence
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 ended Well she took me to the woods sayin'
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 "Here comes somethin' and it feels so good!" And just like a dog I was
 D                     Em   
 befriended I was befriended
 
 
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 Oh oh what a night Oh what a garden of delight
       G            A       D      
 Even now that sweet memory lingers
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 playin' my guitar lying underneath the stars Just
 C            G           D              Em     
 thankin' the lord for my fingers for my fingers
 
 
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