[00:02.34]A Bunch of guys was in this bar room
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[00:06.83]Most of them had been there half the day
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[00:14.20]They'd been telling jokes and fairy tales
[00:16.90]Lying just to pass the time away
[00:20.10]
[00:25.05]Then suddenly someone cracked the bar room door
[00:29.90]
[00:30.62]And then pushed it open wide
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[00:34.26]And this huge tall dark dude bowed his head and stepped inside
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[00:45.54]I wonder where he's from some blonde asked
[00:48.15]
[00:49.55]The wind must have blown him in
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[00:53.02]But an old Dutchman offered him a drink
[00:55.43]
[00:56.12]What will it be whisky rum or gin
[00:59.33]
[01:00.02]Sick and fido a redhead shouted
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[01:04.04]Show his way back to the street
[01:05.91]
[01:07.98]But the Great Dane just walked over
[01:09.72]And licked his hand and lay down at his feet
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[01:14.83]He said if you spare me that drink Dutchman
[01:17.09]
[01:17.86]I promise I tell you how
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[01:21.63]That I came to be the helpless sight
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[01:25.17]That stands before you now
[01:26.61]
[01:28.97]I used to be an artist
[01:30.66]Not one who sits and fiddle on the kerb
[01:33.58]
[01:36.09]But in my day and time my music was considered superb
[01:41.37]
[01:44.10]I wrote a song about a poor kid raised down in New Orleans
[01:49.50]
[01:51.44]It didn't make the hall of fame
[01:53.09]
[01:53.85]But it bought us shrimp rice and beans
[01:55.87]
[01:58.23]He kept at it until he made the big time
[02:00.58]
[02:01.34]Playing town after town
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[02:05.14]Until he met a woman he fell in love with
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[02:08.08]And it really turned his life around
[02:09.84]
[02:12.71]She had eyes like Cleopatra and a head of luxurious hair
[02:18.31]
[02:19.72]With the brilliance of her beauty none other could compare
[02:23.93]
[02:26.09]When she lifted her eyes to his her lips would fall apart
[02:31.65]
[02:33.31]Each time she allowed him kiss her it near petrified his heart
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[02:40.54]But when he ask her would she marry him
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[02:43.78]He'd give her everything he had
[02:45.92]
[02:47.65]She turned and walked away and it nearly drove him mad
[02:53.36]
[02:56.22]He promised her a half a million and would even pay in advance
[03:01.55]
[03:03.41]If she would let him prove himself or at least give him a chance
[03:09.04]
[03:10.69]And if he should go blind and hand to use his hands to feel
[03:15.08]
[03:17.03]He would hire someone to do her work and prepare her every meal
[03:22.60]
[03:25.13]How could a man love a woman so much
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[03:28.24]Not one of you would think
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[03:31.31]Well I did and I still do
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[03:34.99]Hey Dutchman you promised me a drink