Anaïs Mitchell – Of A Friday Night (Guitar)

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Just across from the hospital

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Still in sight of the red lights

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A couple blocks from the orthodox church

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That's where the old poet lived

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In his eyeglasses and his necktie

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At the window looking down

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On the young men passing by

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On the fullness of the town

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Full of them good time gamblers

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Full of their restless wives

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Full of them midnight writers

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Out in the quarter on a Friday night

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Out in the brightness of a Friday night

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And the big horns blowed and the pianos played

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And the music rose to the old man's ears

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I guess those were the olden days

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I guess those were the golden years

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And now the town is empty

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Empty as a mirror

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Empty as the harbor and the barber's chair

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Where did the old poet go?

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I asked around

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Nobody knows

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Maybe I came too early

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Maybe I came too late

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I'm waiting in the shadows of the scaffolds

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Of the old cafés where you told me to wait

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And I've got this lingering feeling

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It's like I've slipped between

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Finger of the century

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I know you know what I mean

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I'll be a good time gambler

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I'll be a restless wife

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I'll be a midnight writer

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Out in the quarter on a Friday night

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Call me good time gambler

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Call me a restless wife

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Call me a midnight writer

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Out in the quarter on a Friday night

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Out in the brightness of a Friday night

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Call me the brightness of a Friday

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