We can stand naked on the corner of Main Street, baby, and
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Let everybody slow down and take a look
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You can drive your Cadillac to the library, baby, and maybe read the
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Last ten pages of an Agatha Christie book
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You can feed my cat to my dog
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And turn around and feed my dog to my horse
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You can screw the whole damn royal family, baby, until they
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All get a divorce
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Baby, baby, baby
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Baby, you can do anything you wanna do, baby
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I swear it will not bother me
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Cause, baby, you know
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Baby, you know you've got to
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You've got to
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You've got to be what you're going to be
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You can burn down the orphanage, baby, over there on the
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Poor side of town
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You can go to the circus, baby, frighten the elephants
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See if you can get them to maybe,
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Trample a clown
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You can steal the prize out of my box of cereal, baby, and
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Replace it with a rat
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You can walk up to someone who might be a little overweight
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And be kinda sensitive about it and say
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"Oh my god, you're really fat!"
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Live and let live, baby
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That's the cornerstone
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The very essence of my philosophy
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And baby
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Baby, you know
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You know you've got to
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You've got to
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You've got to be what you're going to be
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I'm gonna play my harmonica
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Since i charge $35 a note I'm not gonna play much of my harmonica
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You see the blues
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The blues isn't an art form
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It's not a type of music
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The blues is a product
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Not unlike computer chips or tampons
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The blues is a way for white kids to feel
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That they understand the feelings of black people
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Without ever having to meet any of them
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The blues is all these things and more
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Available for $19.95
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Oh, baby
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Baby, you can do whatever you wanna do, baby
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Baby, you know it's not going to bother me
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Cause baby you know
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You know you've got to
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You've got to be what you're going to be
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Here comes the solo!
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Ooh, and what a solo it is
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You know
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That might not be the blues but it sure makes me sad
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Listen, in the distance
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The sound of Leadbelly rolling in his grave
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I've said it before, baby
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I'll say it again
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Live and let live
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The very essence, the cornerstone
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The summit of my philosophy
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Baby, baby, you know
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Baby, you know you've got to
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You've got to be what you're going to be
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A blues man needs a nickname
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And everybody calls me Two Shoes
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Cause i always wear two shoes
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I know it's not much of a nickname
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But by the time i got around to getting my nickname
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All the good ones were taken
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Take for example Blind Lemon Lipschitz
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Blind Lemon Lipschitz gouged out his own eyes with his thumbnails
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So he could be called blind lemon
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It's true, don't laugh
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He felt the very essence of the blues, calling him from within
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And he felt that contract too
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Oh, baby
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Baby, you know
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Baby, you know you can do whatever you do
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I don't care
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I don't give a damn, baby
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It's not gonna bother me
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Cause baby, baby, b-b-b-b-b-b-b
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You gotta
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You gotta
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You gotta
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You gotta
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You gotta be
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You gotta be what you're going to be
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The Blues Song
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The Dead Milkmen |