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Artist: Dire Straits
Track: Once Upon A Time In The West

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Some people get a cheap laugh breaking up the speed limit
Scaring the pedestrians for a minute
Crossing up progress driving on the grass
Leaving just enough room to pass
Sunday driver never took a test
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west

Yes it's no use saying that you don't know nothing
It's still gonna get you if you don't do something
Sitting on a fence that's a dangerous course
Oh, you could even catch a bullet from the peace-keeping force
Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west

Mother Mary your children are slaughtered
Some of you mothers ought to lock up your daughters
Who's protecting the innocents
Heap big trouble in the land of plenty
Tell me how we're gonna do what's best
You guess once upon a time in the west

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Dire Straits – Once Upon a Time in the West
[Verse 1] / Some people get a cheap laugh / Breaking up the speed limit / Scaring the pedestrians for a minute / Crossing up progress driving on the grass / Leaving just enough for
Dire Straits – Once Upon a Time in the West [Alchemy]
Some people get a cheap laugh breaking up the speed limit / Scaring the pedestrians for a minute / Crossing up progress driving on the grass / Leaving just enough for room to pass
Dire Straits – Private Investigations [Alchemy]
Its a mystery to me / The game commences / For the usual fee / Plus expenses / Confidential information / Its in a diary / This is my investigation / Its not a public inquiry / I
Dire Straits – Solid Rock [Alchemy]
Well now take a look at that / I made a castle in the sand / Saying this is where it's at you / Couldn't understand now / If I realised that the chances were slim / How come I'm so
Dire Straits – Two Young Lovers Intro: The Carousel Waltz [Alchemy]
It was the last day of summer / It was the first of a new romance / He walked into her on the corner / She said, 'I don't dance' / He said, 'Baby let me teach you' / She said, 'O.K
Dire Straits – Love Over Gold [Alchemy]
You walk out on the high wire / You're a dancer on thin ice / You pay no heed to the danger / And less to advice / Your footsteps are forbidden / But with knowledge of your sin
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing [Alchemy]
You get a shiver in the dark / It's raining in the park but meantime / South of the river you stop and you hold everything / A band is blowing Dixie double four time / You feel
Dire Straits – Follow Me Home
[Instrumental intro 0:00-1:48] / [Verse 1] / Oh well the sun go down / Celebration in the town tonight / All day long / They been slaughtering upon the stone / Share out the meat
Dire Straits – Expresso Love [Alchemy]
One two one two three four / She gets the sun in the daytime / Perfume in the dusk / And she come out in the night time / With the honeysuckle musk / Because she smells like a rose
Dire Straits – Angel of Mercy
[Verse 1] / Well there's a Peter Pan moon, shepherd's delight / I got the dragon at noon, yes and I won the fight / Now I want my reward in heaven tonight, just like you promised
Dire Straits – Portobello Belle
[Verse 1] / Bella donna's on the high street / Her breasts upon the off beat / And the stalls are just the side shows / Victoriana's old clothes / And yes, her jeans are tight now
Dire Straits – Tunnel of Love [Alchemy]
[Intro: "The Carousel Waltz," by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein] / [Verse 1] / Getting crazy on the waltzers, but it's the life that I choose / Sing about the six-blade
Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet [Alchemy]
A lovestruck Romeo, sings the streetside serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made / Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade / Says something like, You and
Dire Straits – Single Handed Sailor
[Verse 1] / Two in the morning, dry-dock town / The rivers rolls away in the night / Little Gipsy Moth she's all tied down / She quiver in the wind and the light / Yeah, and a
Dire Straits – Telegraph Road [Alchemy]
A long time ago come a man on a track / Walkin' thirty miles with a sack on his back / And he put down his load where he thought it was the best / Made a home in the wilderness
Dire Straits – Communiqué
[Verse 1] / They want to get a statement for Jesus' sake / It's like a talking to the wall / He's incommunicado, no comment to make / He's saying nothing at all / [Pre-Chorus
Dire Straits – Where Do You Think You're Going?
[Chorus] / Where do you think you're going? / Don't you know it's dark outside? / Where do you think you're going? / Don't you care about my pride? / Where do you think you're
Dire Straits – News
[Chorus] / He sticks to his guns / He take the road as it comes / It take the shine off his shoes / He says it's a shame / "You know, it may be a game / Ah, but I won't play to
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Genius Q&A
Q:Who wrote “Once Upon a Time in the West” by Dire Straits?
“Once Upon a Time in the West” by Dire Straits was written by Mark Knopfler.
Q:When did Dire Straits release “Once Upon a Time in the West [Alchemy]”?
Dire Straits released “Once Upon a Time in the West [Alchemy]” on March 16, 1984.
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