Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue
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To find the Stax and Sun
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They were reaching to get to
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They was a rapping the flat scat
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Diamond dialectos of points and taps
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Between the chicken and the back
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They drew themselves a be-bop
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Midnight map
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They said "do you got a map the next joint?"
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"Do you got a map the next joint?"
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Pick it up on the night train
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Down on the corner of rhythm and blues
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Where I have met all of my boys since
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Back in '52
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Bringing 'em Stax and Sun
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Cuz I think that Cleveland forgot
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And Memphis forgot
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Where they were coming from
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Do ya like it? Do ya like it like that?
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Do you like rapping the fat scat?
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Woody and Dutch dance in the cell of fourteen
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Like a pill they do it all night
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Spectators,
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White-walls, find and greased back
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Every Saturday night
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Leaning in the scenery
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Picking up the kids
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At the next door neighbors'
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"Yeah I know what you did
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Yeah I got a room you can stay in
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If you promise you won't make so much noise"
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"No I won't"
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"No I don't!"
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Woody And Dutch On The Slow Train To Peking
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| Rickie Lee Jones |
