Bob Dylan – Black Diamond Bay (Guitar)

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Up on the white veranda

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She wears a neck tie and a panama hat

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Her passport shows her face from

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Another time and place she looks nothing like that

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And all of the remnants of her

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Recent past are scattered in the wild wind

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She walks across the marble floor where a

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Voice from the gambling room is calling her to come on in

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She smiles walks the other way

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As the last ship sails and the moon fades away

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From Black Diamond Bay

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As the morning light breaks open

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The Greek walks down and he asks for a rope and a pen that will write

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Pardon monsieur the Desk Clerk says

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Carefully removes his fez, am I hearing you right

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And as the yellow fog is lifting

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The Greek is quickly heading for the second floor

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She passes him on the spiral staircase

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Thinking he's the Soviet ambassador

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She starts to speak but he walks away

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As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway

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On Black Diamond Bay

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A Soldier sits beneath the fan doing

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Business with the Tiny Man who sells him a ring

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Lightning strikes the lights blow out

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The Desk Clerk wakes he begins to shout can you see anything

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Then the Greek appears on the second floor in his

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Barefeet with a rope around his neck

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While the loser in the gambling room

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Lights up a candle says open up another deck

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But the dealer says attendez-vous sil vous plait

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As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away

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From Black Diamond Bay

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The Desk Clerk heard the Woman laugh as he

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Looked around in the aftermath and the soldier got tough

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He tried to grab the Woman's hand

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Said here's a ring it cost a grand she said that ain't enough

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Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags while a

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Horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb

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She passed the door that the Greek had locked where a

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Hand-written sign read Do not disturb

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She knocked upon it anyway

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As the sun went down and the music did play

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On Black Diamond Bay

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I've got talk to someone quick but the

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Greek said go away and kicked the chair to the floor

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He hung there from the chandelier she

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Cried help there's danger near please open up the door

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Then the volcano erupted and the

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Lava flowed down from the mountain high above

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The Soldier and the Tiny Man were

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Crouched in the corner thinking of forbidden love

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The Desk Clerk says it happens every day

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As the stars fell down and the fields burned away

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On Black Diamond Bay

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As the island slowly sank the

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Loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room

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The dealer said it's too late now you can

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Take your money but I don't know how you'll spend it in the tomb

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The Tiny Man bit the Soldier's ear as the

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Floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew

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While she's out on the balcony where a

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Stranger tells her my darling je vous aime beaucoup

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She sheds a tear then begins to pray

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As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away

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On Black Diamond Bay

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I was sitting home alone one night in

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LA watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news

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It seems there was an earthquake there

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Left nothing but a panama hat and a pair of old Greek shoes

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Didn't seem like much was happening so I

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Turned it off and went to grab another beer

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Seems like every time you turn around there's

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Another hard luck story that you're gonna hear

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And there's really nothing anyone can say

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And I never did plan to go anyway

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To Black Diamond Bay