Todd Snider – Thin Wild Mercury (Guitar Live)

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Poor Phil Ochs, sad and low, hands in his pockets wonderin' where to go.

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watching those tail-lights leave him behind, thrown from the limousine for speaking his mind.

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Like a red-eyed photo into a garbage can, at the corner of a hero and also-ran.

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A fragile heart skip a fragile beat, it's warm in a limousine cold on a street.

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Thin wild mercury... and gold lamé,

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things'll go your way, or they won't.

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Thin wild mercury... and gold lamé,

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you know what they say, or you don't.

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It was all over some new Dylan song, that Phil had the nerve to say sounded wrong.

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Dylan stopped the car, words shook like a fist, "Phil you ain't a writer, you're a journalist!".

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death of a rebel, a twist of fate, if he ever thought better he thought too late.

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Poor Phil Ochs he slipped through the cracks, 'Judas' went electric and he never looked back.

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Thin wild mercury... and gold lamé,

                   C            G
things'll go your way, or they won't.

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Thin wild mercury... and gold lamé,

                    C  G        C
you know what they say, or you don't.

  C   G    F    C  F           C    F
Thin wild mercury... and gold lamé,

                   C            G
things'll go your way, or they won't.

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Thin wild mercury... and gold lamé,

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you know what they say, or you don't.

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or you don't, or you don't,

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or you don't.