Silver drums, rhythms that he hums
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Waltzing dogs, that come when he calls
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Plans for one he keeps in a coffer
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What can I offer, I don't know
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Can I bring him love words to sing him
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Like some foolish magi
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I'll be gone and words in a song
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Won't even last till sunrise
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Go tell the drummer man
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The time glass is out of sand
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Ask him to understand
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And wait for me, and wait for me
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Streets and parks
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Waltzes in the dark
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Lovers now, when time will allow
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An afternoon, the kind to believe in
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Why am I leaving? I don't know
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Distant places, just empty spaces
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Till we are together
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What can I bring, time leaves me nothing
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I wonder will it ever.
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Go tell the drummer man
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The time glass is out of sand
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Ask him to understand
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And wait for me, and wait for me
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Silver birds fly away like words
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In the wind, and soon I'll be in
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Another world
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The land of without him
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What's it about, this other world
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Go tell the drummer man
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The time glass is out of sand
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Ask him to understand
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And wait for me, and wait for me
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Go Tell The Drummer Man
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| Joni Mitchell |