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Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)
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John Mellencamp
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Album: Mr. Happy Go Lucky
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In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners
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At the Hotel Flamingo, wearing black market shoes
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This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon
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No one wants to be lonely, no one wants to sing the blues
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She's perched like a parrot on his tuxedo shoulder
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Christ, what's she doing with him
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She could be dancing with me
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She stirs the ice in the glass with her elegant finger
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I want to be what she's drinking, yeah, I just want to be
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1-I saw you first, I'm the first one tonight
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I saw you first, don't that give me the right
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To move around in your heart
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Everyone was looking
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But I saw you first
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On a moon spattered road in her parrot rebozo
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Gypsy Scotty is driving his big long yellow car
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She flies like a bird over his shoulder
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She whispers in his ear, boy, you are my star
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(repeat 1)
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In the bone colored dawn, me and Gypsy Scotty are singin'
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The radio is playing, she left her shoes out in the rain
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He tells me a story about some girl he knows in Kentucky
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He just made that story up, there ain't no girl like that
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(repeat 1)
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But I saw you first
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Key West Intermezzo
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| John Cougar Mellencamp |
