Year: 1976 - Album: The Royal Scam
Written by Walter Becker/Donald Fagen
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------ And they wandered in from the city
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of St.John without a dime -------------
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---- Wearing coats that shine both red and
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green colors from their sunny is -- land ----
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---- From their boats of iron they looked upon
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--- the promised land where surely -- life was sweet.
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---- On the rising tide to New York --
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City did they ride into the street -----
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See the glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry
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of the royal scam. ---------
verse 2 :
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They are hounded down to the bottom
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of a bad town amid the ruins
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where they learn to fear an angry race
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of fallen kings their dark companions
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while the memory of their southern sky
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was clouded by a savage winter
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Every patron saint hung on the wall,
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shared the room with twenty sinners
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See the glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry
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Of the royal scam
verse 3 :
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By the blackened wall he does it all
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he thinks he's died and gone to heaven
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Now the tale is told by the old man
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back home he reads the letter
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How they are paid in gold jst to babble
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in he back room all night and waste their time
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------ And they wandered in from the city
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of St.John without a dime
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See the glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry
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Of the royal scam .
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