Jefferson Airplane – Son Of Jesus (Guitar)

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Slowly dances over me, anyman’s story

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Jesus had a son by Mary Magdalene 

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And he rode the land like the man who went before 

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Young Jesus raised him proud, Mother Mary raised him proud

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And he tracked down the men who laid his father down

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One day the Pilate died with the fire in his side

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Herod did die too, not the way wanted to 

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Y’see the child knew the secrets of Egypt and Isis 

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Jews are foxier than, foxier than you

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Any man’s story, dances over me 

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Magdalene remembered when the people smiled and had been looser 

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Looser than they'd been since the day young Jesus died

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Public execution enhanced by levitation 

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Fancy mutilation for two thousand years of time

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Jesus could walk on the water

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The man could dance on the Sea of Galilee

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Don’t you try breathin’ in that water

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Miracles go only so far, you see

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2,000 years

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They both dance over me

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Any man’s story, they both dance over me

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Like God loved his bastard Jesus

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You know he did love that bastard son

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God loved the good son of Jesus

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You know he got off on the foxy daughter too

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So you think young Jesus Christ never balled a lady

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And you think young Mary never saw him smile wide & free

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You won’t read it in the bible, but if you look you’re liable 

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To come across the truth about a man from Galilee 

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She raised the man upon the water, they had son they had a daughter

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She hid them from the slaughter in the deep Black Sea

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God loved the bastard son of Jesus 

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God got off on the sparklin’ daughter, too yes he did 

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Jesus could walk on the water

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The man could dance on the Sea of Galilee 

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Watch him dance, watch him dance, watch him dance