Bridegroom Blues-John Wesley Harding

[ti:Bridegroom Blues] [ar:John Wesley Harding] [al:The Name Above The Title] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bridegroom Blues - John Wesley Harding [00:37.72]The streets are doing a war dance [00:40.09]As their sight is restored to the blind [00:42.32]And I'm sifting trash on the offchance [00:44.71]That there might be something to find [00:47.30]And Mary lets her fingers do the walking [00:49.45]Her baby's nearly due [00:51.46]She's listening but no one's talking [00:53.76]At the citizen's advice bureau [00:56.39]And joe is down on the dole queue [00:58.69]He should have signed on yesterday [01:00.90]Even if he was a carpenter and she was his [01:03.30]Lady [01:03.65]He still wouldn't be able to make it pay [01:05.68]No [01:06.10] [01:23.58]And he don't believe in angels [01:26.59]She's been seeing another man [01:29.16]Infidelity runs in the family [01:31.46]But that wasn't a part of the plan [01:33.67]And shepherds watch the flicks by night [01:36.04]At the king's 'cross all night show [01:38.36]So much trying to catch their eyes [01:40.86]But they're too grossed out to know [01:42.98]And the three kings travel like three ships a sailing [01:45.42]They've got some gifts he'll need [01:47.35]Coc*ine for sniffing money for corruption and a whole load [01:50.80]Of videos of I love lucy [01:52.68] [02:10.59]But the king of the country he's getting frightened [02:13.19]He doesn't want to be somebody man's pawn [02:15.26]And he crushes the beer can between his hands [02:18.09]He sees his fate the clown yells checkmate [02:20.32]And another star is born [02:22.21]But the baby is killed in an instant [02:24.89]As though his whole life were a dream [02:27.10]Though his book sells well and he pulls out the [02:29.55]Stops [02:30.04]Everyone knows he's a hyped up hasbeen [02:32.68] [02:41.31]And the t shirts just embarrass [02:43.70]And thought become memories after a while [02:46.31]He's looking so much older now [02:48.59]It's hard to belive that that was style [02:50.81]And he throws his cloak out to his fan [02:53.31]It's his last chance sacrifice [02:55.55]The girls are crawling a cut glass sea [02:58.31]No one even wants to look twice [03:00.36]'Cos the circle's all but full now [03:02.51]But the stalls are empty for the latest son [03:05.08]Who just smiles and says [03:06.31]Give my regards to fleet street I've gotta run [03:09.40] [03:10.19]I've gotta run [03:11.68] [03:23.28]Oh get it [03:24.47] [03:30.71]The streets are doing a war dance [03:33.27]As their sight is restored to the blind [03:35.49]And I'm sifting trash on the offchance [03:37.94]That there might be something to find [03:40.00] [03:48.09]The streets are doing a war [03:50.13] [03:55.19]Are doing a war [03:56.11] [03:57.51]Are doing a war