Johny's in the basement
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Mixing up the medicine
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I'm on the pavement
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Thinking about the government
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The man in the trench coat
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Badge out, laid off
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Says he's got a bad cough
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Wants to get it paid off
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Look out kid
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It's somethin' you did
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God knows when
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But you're doin' it again
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You better duck down the alley way
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Lookin' for a new friend
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The man in the coon-skip cap
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In the big pen
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Wants eleven dollar bills
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You only got ten.
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Maggie comes fleet foot
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Face full of black soot
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Talkin' that the heat put
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Plants in the bed but
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The phone's tapped anyway
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Maggie says that many say
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They must bust in early May
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Orders from the DA
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Look out kid
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Don't matter what you did
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Walk on your tip toes
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Don't try, 'No Doz'
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Better stay away from those
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That carry around a fire hose
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Keep a clean nose
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Watch the plain clothes
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You don't need a weather man
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To know which way the wind blows.
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Get sick, get well
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Hang around an ink well
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Ring bell, hard to tell
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If anything is goin' to sell
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Try hard, get barred
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Get back, write Braille
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Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you failed
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Look out kid
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You're gonna get hit
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But users, cheaters
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Six-time losers
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Hang around the theaters
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Girl by the whirlpool
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Lookin' for a new fool
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Don't follow leaders
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Watch the parkin' meters.
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Ah get born, keep warm
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Short pants, romance, learn to dance
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Get dressed, get blessed
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Try to be a success
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Please her, please him, buy gifts
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Don't steal, don't lift
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Twenty years of schoolin'
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And they put you on the day shift
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Look out kid
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They keep it all hid
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Better jump down a manhole
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Light yourself a candle
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Don't wear sandals
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Try to avoid the scandals
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Don't wanna be a bum
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You better chew gum
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The pump don't work
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'Cause the vandals took the handles.
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Subterranean Homesick Blues
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| Bob Dylan |
