Words & music by Paul Simon 1971
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Couple in the next room
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Bound to win a prize
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they've been goin' at it all night long
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Well I'm tryin' to get some sleep
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but these motel walls are cheap
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Lincoln Duncan is my name
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and here's my song, here's my song
My father was a fisherman
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my mama was a fisherman's friend
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and I was born in the boredom and the chowder
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So when I reached my prime
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I left my home in the maritimes
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headed down the turnpike for New England, sweet New England
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Holes in my confidence
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holes in the knees of my jeans
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I's left without a penny in my pocket
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Oo-o wee I's about as
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destituted as a kid could be
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And I wish I wore a ring
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so I could hock it I'd like to hock it
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A young girl in a parking lot
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was preaching to a crowd
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singin sacred songs and
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reading from the bible
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Well I told her I was lost
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and she told me all about the Pentecost
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And I seen that girl as the road to my survi-ival
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Just later on the very same night
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when I crept to her tent with a flashlight
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and my long years of innocence ended
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Well she took me to the woods sayin'
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"Here comes somethin' and it feels so good!"
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And just like a dog I was befriended
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I was befriended
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Oh, oh, what a night
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Oh what a garden of delight
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Even now that sweet memory lingers
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I was playin' my guitar
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lying underneath the stars
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Just thankin' the lord for my fingers
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for my fingers
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