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title:Fare thee well, Ms Carousel

subtitle:Townes Van Zandt

comment:Intro

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Well the druEnken clown still haG#mnging 'round but it's plaAin the lauG#mghters alF#ml died down The teBars you tried so haArd to hide are floEwing And a blindE man with his knifeG#m in hand has convinAced himseG#mlf that he undF#merstands I wishB him well, miss Carousel, but AI gotta be a goEing

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 WC#mon't you come and geG#mt me when You're sC#mure that you don't neG#med me then I'll stC#mand outside your wiG#mndow and proAudly call your naG#mme G#m B

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Well the lady's been told that all her gold is worth so much she can't be sold No time to weep, she'll later sleep tomorrow When she carries her face to the market place and bets it on the open enrage She can ring her bells, miss Carousel, but this singing brings me sorrow

comment:Chorus

 But it's always done, every mothers sun is surely grown, and never run So they fight with all their might inside them When the battles been fought 'n they all been taught that the trick is just not being caught Will you give 'em hell, miss Carousel, when they're begging you to hide them
When they need a rose, your eyes felt closed You clamped your fingers around your nose Would you say, that's anyway to judge him Well you haven't got the authority too kill him in the first degree But would you feel compelled, miss Carousel, if you had something to regret in

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On velvet beach far beneath the reach of those who come to pray and preach The natural man that tried to stand is falling Well how long will it be before he sees you own his legs but his mind is free only you can tell , miss Carousel, how long will he be crawling

comment:Chorus

 All the castle walls grown so tall Seems there ain't no hope at all to reach the top even though you stopped for breathing But I ain't gonna try to make you cry the teardrops couldn't find your eyes It's all been swell, miss Carousel, but the time has come for leaving

comment:Chorus ( x 4)

We all discover the music of Townes Van Zandt through other people's covers of his material. For me it was the Waylon & Willie cover of Pancho And Lefty. No matter the path you've trod to get there, once you've discovered Townes, you've unearthed yourself America's greatest living songwriter. The Cowboy Junkies, Nanci Griffith, and many others are doing us all a great service by covering his songs. jk13@aol.com (John Kearney) Or as Guy Clark expressed it: "Townes van Zandt is the greatest songwriter in the whole word, and I will stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and tell it to him" (or something like that) /Patrik . Patrik Nordling ---------------------------------------------------------- Dept of Computer Science Phone: + 46 13 28 19 48 University of Linkoping Telefax: + 46 13 28 26 66 S-581 83 Linkoping E-mail: patno@ida.liu.se Sweden ----------------------------------------------------------