Ralph McTell – West 4Th Street And Jones (Guitar)

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February sixty three the cold would chill your bones

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There's a couple walking down the road West 4th Street and Jones

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Shoulders hunched against the cold

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They walked through melting snow

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She smiles for the camera

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And he affected not to know

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His hands deep in his pockets, his head was slightly bowed

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All the studied nonchalance that the weather would allow

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Her arms wrapped around him like a shawl

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To keep him from the cold

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Love so warm can melt away

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What once she had to hold

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Spring came late in sixty three and it faded like a kiss

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Winter came in early, landed like a fist

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When Kennedy got shot

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In that Lincoln limousine

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Drenched us all in blood and splintered bone

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Right on our TV screen

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When I kissed my girl on Gower Street how was I to know

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That we'd begun to drift apart as I stumbled through Soho

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In the unforgiving neon light

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The words she could not speak

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Were written in her mascara

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That dried upon my  cheek

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But the world will keep on turning, young lovers drift apart

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Bob and Suze's rhyming steps leave their footprints on the heart

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In the jingle jangle morning

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Dylan and Rotolo

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In a freeze frame photograph

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Eternally,     tomorrow.