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    Cabin Door

    There's seven breezes a-blowin'
    All around the cabin door.    
                        "Ballad of Hollis Brown"
     
    Let the four winds blow around this old cabin door.
    If I'm not too far off,
    I think we did this once before.   
                        "On a Night Like This"
    
    

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    Cards

    Don't need to depend on tricks or on cards
    I see through man's delusions, I see through his facades
                        "Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody"
     
    Campin' out all night on the berenda,
    Dealin' cards 'til dawn in the hacienda,
    Up to Boot Hill they'd like to send ya,
    Billy, don't you turn your back on me.    
                        "Billy"
     
    While the loser in the gambling room,
    Lights up a candle, says, "Open up another deck."
                        "Black Diamond Bay"
     
    Gentlemen, he said,
    I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
    I've moved your mountains and marked your cards,
                        "Changing of the Guards"
     
    Now his nurse, some local loser,
    She's in charge of the cyanide hole,
    And she also keeps the cards that read,
    "Have Mercy on His Soul."               
                        "Desolation Row"
     
    The jacks and queens have forsaked the courtyard,
    Fifty-two gypsies now file past the guards.
    In the space where the deuce and the ace once ran wild,
    Farewell Angelina, the sky is folding, 
    I'll see you in a while. 
                        "Farewell Angelina"
     
    He'll fill his glasses up to the brim
    And he'll pass the cards around.   
                        "House of the Rising Sun"
     
    All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance,
    The trial was a pig-circus,
    He never had a chance,
                        "Hurricane"
     
    Well, I return to the Queen of Spades,
    And talk with my chambermaid.
    She knows that I'm not afraid,
    To look at her.     
                        "I Want You"
     
    And you figured you failed in yesterday's rush
    When you were faked out an' fooled while facing a four flush
    And all the time you were holdin' three queens
    And it's makin' you mad, it's makin' you mean
                        "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie"
     
    He was standing in the doorway looking, 
    Lookin' like the Jack of Hearts.        
                        "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"
     
    Backstage the girls were playing 
    Five-card stud by the stairs,
    Lily had two queens, 
    She was hoping for a third to match her pair,     
                        "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"
     
    Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts.
                        "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"
     
    We live in a political world, the one we can see and feel,
    But there's no one to check, it's all a stacked deck,
    We all know for sure that it's real.         
                        "Political World"
     
    With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace,
    And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace,
                        "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"
     
    Well, I'm lookin' down at two card,
    They seem to be handmade.
    One looks like it's the ace of diamonds,
    The other looks like it is the ace of spades.
                        "Standing on the Highway"
     
    You don't want to have to deal in the game,
    Got to make the queen disappear,
    It's done with a flick of the wrist.
    What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?
                        "Sweetheart Like You"
     
    Tell me what you're gonna do
    When the devil calls your cards.
    O Lord, O Lord, what shall you do?      
                        "Whatcha Gonna Do?"
    

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    Crimson Flames

    Crimson flames tied through my ears,
    Rolling high and mighty traps.
                        "My Back Pages"
     
    They're beating the devil out of a guy
    Whose wearing a flaming red wig.
                        "Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart" 
                        Infidels Outtake Version
    

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