Market in the cool white mornin'
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Merchants sell as ladies buy
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Milk, tobacco, soap and matches
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Sweep the floor
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While the dishes dry
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Spring whispered in her ear
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Like soft Mediterranean wailin'
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Sleepy woman by the window
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Dreamin' in the morning air
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Of the man who takes her sweetness
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By a chinese lamp upstairs
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The steam of China tea
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You could hear the woman sing
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In the soft flames of spring
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Spring has swept the scarlet side streets
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Winds caress, undress, invite
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Upstairs by a china lamp
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They softly talk in the cool spring night
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Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp
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| Laura Nyro |
