| The Stranger Song (1975-1988) |
Read
the original lyrics of the song
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 Paris June
76
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verse variation You hate to watch another tired man lay down his hand like he was giving up the Holy Game of Poker. And while he talks his dreams to sleep,you notice there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder. Now suddenly, you feel a little older. Yes suddenly you look a little older. |
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Chicago
1976
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About ten years ago I came to NYC with some
songs. I have been living on a Greek island for about 8 years at the
time. And it was kind of hard to get anybody to listen to them. You know
they've kind of said "Just stand up Kid and turn around, you're a
little old for this aren't you" .There was one person in NYC that
listened to the songs and that was Judy Collins. And she recorded them and
I think anything that happened to me subsequently was because of the
interest she took in the songs when she first read them. Around that time
I was living in the Penn Terminal Hotel on 34th Street, gruesome establishment
as the name indicates.And I wrote this song at that time. |
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Frankfurt 01/11/79
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4Th verse variation But now another stranger seems to want you to ignore his dreams, as though they were the burden of some other. You've seen that man before,his golden arm dispatching cards, but now it's rusted from the elbow to the finger. And he wants to trade the song he sings for shelter. Yeah he wants to trade the song he knows for shelter. |
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Bonn 03/12/79
in the "Beethovenhalle"
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This is a very curious and important moment for
the Band and myself. It's our last night in Germany and we are here in some kind
of a very center of a series of Chinese boxes, in Germany, the strongest nation
in the West, in Bonn, the capital of this gigantic nation. In a room named for
your most forceful composer, Beethoven, it seems difficult for this stranger to
be at the very center of all this power,and I want to thank you for welcoming me
in this mystical center of fire and ice. |
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Antwerp
17/04/88
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This comes out of a thousand hotel rooms,ten thousand railway stations... |
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"The Stranger Song"
was included in the O.S.T of "John Mc Cabe" |
