 Genius Lyrics
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Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding
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[Verse 1] / John Wesley Harding / Was a friend to the poor / He traveled a'with a gun in ev'ry hand / All along this countryside / He opened a'many a door / But he was never known
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John Wesley Harding – If You Have Ghosts
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[Verse 1] / If you have ghosts (If you have ghosts) / Then you have everything / If you have ghosts (If you have ghosts) / Then you have everything / Oh you can say anything you
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John Wesley Harding – Humble Bee
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[Verse 1] / Once upon a time / I could've had it all / A princess with a price on her head / Or the prince who'd climb her wall / But when pride has it in for someone / None of us
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John Wesley Harding – When the Beatles Hit America
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[Intro] / Two, alright / [Verse 1] / Due to a miracle marketing strategy / Beyond the realms of reasonable possibility / It is announced simultaneously / On radio, DAT, compact
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John Wesley Harding – Top of the Bottom
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[Verse 1] / I started playing guitar by the town memorial / All my songs were singing editorials / And when I'd done the Sermon on the Mount / I counted my change and put it in my
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John Wesley Harding – The Person You Are
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[Verse 1] / I put my forehead to the door / I heard the famous sound of infidelity / Looks like I loved and lost once more / Oh, but all's fair in love and war supposedly / I
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John Wesley Harding – July 13th 1985
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[Spoken] / I'm gonna do a song now about— / I'm gonna do a song now about something that happened / On July the 13th 1985 / I also, no I dedicate this to the, to Mr. Liberal X
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John Wesley Harding – Here Comes the Groom
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[Verse 1] / With half an eye on history / Half an ounce of hope / Sold his soul in the vestry / Money for old rope / Been this way a million times / But now his time is nigh / He
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John Wesley Harding – Still Photo
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[Verse 1] / I saw you yesterday / I couldn't let it be / I had to sift through broken glass / To find out if you'd missed me / But all I found was a slow fade / A gift-wrapped box
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John Wesley Harding – The End
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[Verse 1] / It'll end with a bang / It'll end with a gun / It'll end with a chorus / And then another one / It'll end in ten minutes / And too many beers / Though it might struggle
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John Wesley Harding – Robert Frost Rag
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[Intro] / I'm probably gonna fuck up the words, but hey. Oh shit. Oh fuck. Oh shit. They're putting this on the radio. See, but I said "fuck" but then I went "shit" to cover for it
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John Wesley Harding – The World (And All Its Problems)
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[Verse 1] / Well, I was holding up a cigarette and trying to find my mouth / Trying hard to look so cool like any other ticket tout / People sipping on each other's blood, they're
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John Wesley Harding (Ft. The Minus Five) – Words Words Words
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[Verse 1] / Words, words, words / In my old Bible / How much truth remains? / [Refrain] / If I only understood them / While my lips pronounced them / Would not my life be changed
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John Wesley Harding – Fifty Fifty Split
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[Verse 1] / There are so many sides to every story / And this is mine / A dirty pair of hands sometimes has to come clean / And now is the time / I just couldn't see love's great
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John Wesley Harding – The People's Drug
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[Verse 1] / Got a stupid job, but it's fair money / I got a brand new car but I can't drive / I've got a sweetheart, I call her honey / And I've also got a wife / People say that
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John Wesley Harding – Uncle Dad
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[Verse 1] / He comes a-knockin' on a Friday night / With a box of Black Magic and a bottle of white / And if she's with him, she waits outside / Watch her do her lipstick in the
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John Wesley Harding – Hitler's Tears
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[Verse 1] / One man's tears stain the pillow / Where he used to lay his head / She's left him for another man / So how come they're both sleeping in his bed? / He can hardly sleep
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John Wesley Harding – Dark Dark Heart
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[Verse 1] / In an office two miles underground / They can't tell night from day / Secretaries typing errors of judgment / In eternally full in-trays / Phones ring in, get put on
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John Wesley Harding – I Should Have Stopped
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[Verse 1] / I remember you when we were both at school / For one short week we shared the same carpool (Hey, hey) / Then I saw you today / You're looking pretty special in your
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John Wesley Harding – Miss Fortune
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[Verse 1] / I was born with a coathanger in my mouth / (Oh yeah) And I was dumped down south / I was found by the richest man in the world / (Oh yeah) He bought me up as a girl
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John Wesley Harding – The Rent
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[Verse 1] / The doors they're all now closing / The shutters drawing too / Guess it's you and me left alone at last / Both looking for someone to shoot / Me with the empty threats
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John Wesley Harding – Famous Man
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[Intro] / Uh, last night I shot someone / And I feel—and today I wrote his biography / Tomorrow I'm gonna die drunk / This song's called "Famous Man" / [Verse 1] / Mother, last
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John Wesley Harding – Who You Really Are
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[Intro] / Thanks / [Verse 1] / You got a brain just like a steam shovel / And I'm tar upon the road / You've got a body like a shotgun / That I'm trying to unload / If you are yin
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John Wesley Harding – Scared of Guns
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[Verse 1] / Well, the power of the bullet is fascinating / They're polishing the Luger facsimiles / The little kids grow up imitating / Cowboys shoot Indians before puberty / [Pre-
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John Wesley Harding – Negative Love
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[Verse 1] / Negative love / Sceptical lies beneath the frown / Negative love / You're always putting other people down / Then they're gone / As they fade away, well, who's to say
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John Wesley Harding – Goth Girl
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[Verse 1] / Goth girl / What are you wearing today? / Black again / Goth girl / It's such a fine day in May / But you think it's raining / One day I'm gonna kiss the lipstick off
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John Wesley Harding – Protest Protest Protest
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[Verse 1] / Back in the radical sixties / It was hippies and tambourines / It was mud and nudity / It was gigs in fields of green / It was a changing society / And that was cool
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John Wesley Harding – The Secret Angel
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[Verse 1] / The secret angel fell from grace / Condemned to wear a human face / Evicted from her paradise / Excommunicated twice / She settled for second best / And so she found me
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John Wesley Harding – Ordinary Weekend
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[Verse 1] / I lost my job on Friday, I went drinking to forget / My luck it had been down so long but I could change it yet / Sat down and started talking with some guy sitting
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John Wesley Harding – I'm Wrong About Everything
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[Verse 1] / You win the argument at the end of every night / I never know the perfect time to hit the bedside light / Then we lie awake and watch headlights climb the blinds / I
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John Wesley Harding – Talking Return Of The Great Folk Scare Blues
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[Intro] / I'm going to do something, uh, quick and peppy and snappy (Okay). all the things for which I'm so popular. And this, this is called, this is going to be a talking blues
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John Wesley Harding – Long Dead Gone
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[Verse 1] / It's so easy to forgo, it's so hard to forget / It's so hard for to realise that I'm not dead yet / When everything that we wanted is beyond beyond / And all that I
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John Wesley Harding – Save a Little Room for Me
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[Verse 1] / When it's time to pack your bags / When everything appears as the drag that it is / Get down that brown case that your grandma had / Open it up and think of your dad
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John Wesley Harding – Bad Dream Baby
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[Verse 1] / She had a criminal conversation with the devil / On the back seat of a burned out Toyota Camry / She said she'd finally found a way to start a family / Oh, but not one
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John Wesley Harding – Kill the Messenger
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[Verse 1] / The messenger came with bad news from the front / Said, "The soldiers are starving and their swords are all blunt / They need a show of support or some futile sign
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John Wesley Harding – The Truth
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[Verse 1] / Well, I was arrested for disturbing the peace / Oh but hey, I was disturbing the war / I was holding a small white handkerchief / Saying, "Please don't fight no more
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John Wesley Harding – Roy Orbison Knows
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[Verse 1] / Well, your voice grips me tight just like fingers / And takes hold of whatever's inside / Though we try to harmonize with different singers / When we're out of tune at
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John Wesley Harding (Ft. David Lewis (UK)) – The End of Something
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[Verse 1: John Wesley Harding] / These streets are full of nothing / And all the faces look the same / I'm trapped inside the feeling / That there's no one left to blame / Please
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John Wesley Harding – Other People's Failure
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[Verse 1] / Maybe you're insecure / Neck deep in life's manure / Maybe your heart's impure / Inured to life's small compensations / Maybe you're born to lose / Could be caught out
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John Wesley Harding – Same Thing Twice
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[Verse 1] / Well, he's done it all a million times / The gags, the repartee, the little crimes / Every audience is special and that goes for you / Well, he looks into your eyes
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Moondog – Here’s to John Wesley Hardin
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Here´s to John Wesley Hardin, / No man was quicker on the draw / Many men tried his meddle / And found it wasn´t wanting lead / Think of Jane when you judge him; / She loved and
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John Wesley Harding – She's a Piece of Work
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[Verse 1] / Some things look hard and then they're not / Like getting on a tightrope and falling off / But there's never been anything harder than loving her / She's so demanding
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John Wesley Harding – Monkey and His Cat
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[Verse 1] / Monkey keeps his cat up in a cage upon the stage / And the crowned heads of Europe cheer the wonder of the age / 'Cause the cat's just like a bird / And good old monkey
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John Wesley Harding – Window Seat
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[Verse 1] / I was bought on by my mother as her carry-on / She had me in the toilet when the seat-belt sign was on / And I crawled up to the captain at the other end / And I hid
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John Wesley Harding (Ft. Steve Earle) – Our Lady of the Highways
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[Verse 1: John Wesley Harding] / I'm here in Philadelphia / She got stuck down in DC / It's a wretched night, it's raining / But she's coming up to meet me / There's nothing I can
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John Wesley Harding – Nothing I'd Rather Do
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[Verse 1] / There's nothing that's better at all / That's better than the sound of the closest call / Tells you to act proud, act proud, walk tall / There's nothing that's better
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John Wesley Harding – Where the Bodies Are
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[Verse 1] / Somebody went and killed some people / And they know who / The evidence fits around the facts / Like a favourite shoe / Nobody knows where the corpses are / Their
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John Wesley Harding – You're No Good
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[Verse 1] / How can you be so dark and distrusting / When she's all sweetness and light? / She doesn't lie through her teeth all day / She doesn't grind them in her dreams / When
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