[00:18.000]I went to Staten Island, Sharon
[00:21.000]To buy myself a mandolin
[00:27.000]And I saw the long white dress of love
[00:31.000]On a storefront mannequin
[00:37.000]Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars
[00:41.000]All for something lacy
[00:45.000]Some girl's going to see that dress
[00:48.000]And crave that day like crazy
[01:04.000]Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada
[01:08.000]They can balance and they can climb
[01:13.000]Like their fathers before them
[01:16.000]They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline
[01:22.000]Shine your light on me Miss Liberty
[01:26.000]Because as soon as this ferry boat docks
[01:30.000]I'm headed to the church to play Bingo
[01:34.000]Fleece me with the gamblers' flocks
[01:49.000]I can keep my cool at poker
[01:52.000]But I'm a fool when love's at stake
[01:58.000]Because I can't conceal emotion
[02:01.000]What I'm feeling's always written on my face
[02:08.000]There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street
[02:12.000]I went in to see her as a kind of joke
[02:16.000]And she lit a candle for my love luck
[02:20.000]And eighteen bucks went up in smoke
[02:35.000]Sharon I left my man
[02:37.000]At a North Dakota junction
[02:43.000]And I came out to the "Big Apple" here
[02:47.000]To face the dream's malfunction
[02:53.000]Love's a repetitious danger
[02:58.000]You'd think I'd be accustomed to
[03:01.000]Well I do accept the changes
[03:06.000]At least better than I used to do
[03:29.000]A woman I knew just drowned herself
[03:33.000]The well was deep and muddy
[03:38.000]She was just shaking off futility
[03:42.000]Or punishing somebody
[03:48.000]My friends were calling up all day yesterday
[03:52.000]All emotions and abstractions
[03:56.000]It seems we all live so close to that line
[04:00.000]and so far from satisfaction
[04:15.000]Dora says "Have children"
[04:18.000]Mama and Betsy say "Find yourself a charity”
[04:24.000]Help the needy and the crippled or put some time into Ecology"
[04:33.000]Well there's a wide wide world of noble causes
[04:39.000]And lovely landscapes to discover
[04:42.000]But all I really want to do right now
[04:45.000]Is find another lover
[05:01.000]When we were kids in Maidstone, Sharon
[05:04.000]I went to every wedding in that little town
[05:10.000]To see the tears and the kisses
[05:13.000]And the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gown
[05:19.000]And walking home on the railroad tracks
[05:23.000]Or swinging on the playground swing
[05:28.000]Love stimulated my illusions
[05:32.000]More than anything
[05:38.000]And when I went skating after Golden Reggie
[05:41.000]You know it was white lace I was chasing
[05:45.000]Chasing dreams
[05:49.000]Mama's nylons underneath my cowgirl jeans
[05:56.000]He showed me first you get the kisses
[06:00.000]And then you get the tears
[06:04.000]But the ceremony of the bells and lace
[06:07.000]Still veils this reckless fool here
[06:23.000]Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink
[06:27.000]Circling in singles and in pairs
[06:32.000]In this vigorous anonymity
[06:35.000]A blank face at the window stares and
[06:39.000]stares and stares and stares and stares
[06:42.000]And the power of reason
[06:46.000]And the flowers of deep feeling
[06:49.000]Seem to serve me
[06:52.000]Only to deceive me
[07:07.000]Sharon you've got a husband
[07:12.000]And a family and a farm
[07:17.000]I've got the apple of temptation
[07:21.000]And a diamond snake around my arm
[07:27.000]But you still have your music
[07:32.000]And I've still got my eyes on the land and the sky
[07:35.000]You sing for your friends and your family
[07:38.000]I'll walk green pastures by and by
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