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  • Mountains
  • Nature of Man

    Mountains

    I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
    I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
    "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"

    And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
    And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
    Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
    "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"

    But the volcano erupted and the lava flowed down,
    from the mountain high above.
    "Black Diamond Bay"

    Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist,
    Before it washed to the sea?
    "Blowing in the Wind"

    Well, we're drivin' this car, and the sun is comin' up over the Rockies, "Brownsville Girl"

    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"

    But if I could I'd bring you to the mountain-top, girl,
    And build you a house made out of stainless steel,
    "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight"

    Father, who build the mountain so high,
    Who shapeth the cloud up in the sky,
    Father of time, Father of dreams,
    Father, who turneth the rivers and streams.
    "Father of Night"

    Looked for the answer, found a solution,
    Too rich for my blood and I needed a transfusion.
    Don't know what I say about Claudette, she could be in the mountains or the prairies,
    She could be respectably married, or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires.
    "Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar - Warfield Version"

    He got that fortress on the mountain,
    With no doors or windows,
    So no thieves can break in.
    "Handy Dandy"

    I'm gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange,
    So I look like a walking mountain range.
    And I'm gonna ride into Omaha on a horse,
    "I Shall Be Free No 10"

    Well I've been to the mountain and I've been in the wind,
    I've been in and out of happiness.
    I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings,
    An I've never been too impressed.
    "Is Your Love In Vain"

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    Nature of Man

    Talk about perfection, I ain't never seen none,
    And there ain't no man righteous, no not one.
    "Ain't No Man Righteous"

    But power and greed and corruptible seed,
    Seem to be all that there is.
    "Blind Willie McTell"

    Heart of mine so malicious and so full of guile,
    Give you an inch and you'll take a mile
    . "Heart of Mine"

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