Ralph McTell – The Girl On The Jersey Ferry (Guitar Acoustic)

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Right from the start let's get one thing straight

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When it comes to the heart you can't legislate

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Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes

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Like the scene from the movie Citizen Kane

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One short moment with me remains

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Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes

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When Bernstein says now you take me

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Stuck in my mind one memory

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I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry

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As we pulled out another ferry pulled in

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A second between them was all it could have been

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And on it was a girl waiting to get off

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A white dress is what she had on

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One second later she was gone

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She never saw me at all,she carried a white parasol

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That was in eighteen ninety six

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And I bet a month hasn't gone by since

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That I haven't thought of that girl on the Jersey ferry

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Now it's nineteen forty one

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Nigh half a century been and gone

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And I still remember that girl with the white dress on

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A fleeting glimpse of chances missed

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Destiny or fates cruel twist

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She'd never even know that I exist,

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How about that

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Time is the ticket and the years the toll

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Did I mention she carried a white parasol

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Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes