This is the text on the Rendezvous album:
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If your eyes are blue you know the rest
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Champagne if it's very cool
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It's never very formal how you dress
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For oysters by the swimming pool
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Then slip away into the mountainside
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Like the man in the Lazy E'
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It's great to have a place where you can hide
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Why you must amazes me
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Chorus
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Golden,
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Where are you?
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Sold on gold dust
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I shuttled all around America
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From New York to Los Angeles
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Nervous breakdown later, there we were
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From Liberty to redwood trees
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A friend of mine, she hitched from east to west
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In time to hear my final song
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It seems to me she tried her very best
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She is a good companion
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(Chorus)
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He stores away the moments of her smiles
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As if they were rare butterflies
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Stalks his prey for miles and miles and miles
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Then barters for the merchandise
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When Life it drags the likes of me around
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Just when we need some time alone
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You have a simple mansion underground
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Without address or telephone
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(Chorus)
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The live version on The Attic Tracks Vol. 3 and on Gold Dust - Live At The Royalty is a bit different. The last two lines of verse one are:
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It's nice to have a place where you can hide
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For why you must amazes me
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And the last verse is:
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He stores away the moments of her smiles
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As if they were rare butterflies
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Stalks his prey for miles and miles and miles
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And barters for the merchandise
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As time it drags the likes of me around
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Just when we need some time alone
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You have a private mansion underground
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Without address or telephone
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Gold Dust
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Sandy Denny |