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Rose Of Erin
Joe Strummer
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In the wind out in a working town
Where the boys are at high
Some happy and some sad
But some drunk all around
And the breeze is blowing in the hall
And the door is shaking in the wind
Now that's when the boys will sing
To the Rose of Harlem
Well she waited on the New Bell Road
For all the nights of getting down
You could see she was ready for a show
When she came waltzing down
Schoolboys out singing in the alleys
Eyes stepping all across the floor
She became the new sensation
And everybody's screaming more
Into the ballroom halls
She drinks from a fountain of spring
They say it was a nightingale
Who gave her voice to sing
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Now she burned on flowers at her door
Sent by gangsters and candy dates
Now many thought she's living in the law
Kept her picture like a saint
Till one winter night in Chicago
She began in the saloon
She blew more over in love
And blasted away from the moon
A poor man drove with all her
Found lying in the snow
And she left one dollar
In a barrel
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She must have lost herself in New Orleans
And played the line of Jumpin' Jim
Oh the world is seeming down in old Hong Kong
And the clippers leaped across the China Sea
And the breeze is blowing in the hall
And the door is shaking in the wind
Now that's when the boys will sing
To the Rose of Harlem
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When it's late at night
To the Rose of Harlem
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When it's really late at night
To the Rose of Harlem
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