Jerry Garcia – When I Paint My Masterpiece (Guitar)

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Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble

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Ancient footprints are everywhere

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You can almost think that you're seein' double

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On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs

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Got to hurry on back to my hotel room

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Where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece

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She promised that she'd be right there with me

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When I paint my masterpiece

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Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum

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Dodging lions and wastin' time

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Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle

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I could hardly stand to see 'em

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Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb

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Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory

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When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese

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      Someday, everything is gonna be different

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When I paint my masterpiece

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I left Rome and landed in Brussels

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On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried

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Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin' muscles

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Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside

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Newspapermen eating candy  had to be held down by big police

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      Someday, everything is gonna be different

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When I paint my masterpiece

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      Someday, everything is gonna be different

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When I paint my masterpiece

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| Sailin'round the world in a dirty gondola

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| Oh to be back in the land of Coca Cola!