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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I slept through the Nineteen Sixties,
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I heard Dory Previn say
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But me I caught me the great white bird,
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to the shores of Africay
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Where I lost my adolescent heart,
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to the sound of a talking drum
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Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam
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Verse 2
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And on the roads outside Oshogbo, Lord
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I fell down on my knees
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There were female spirits in old mud huts,
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iron bells ringing up in the trees
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And an eighty- year- old white priest,
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she made juju all night long
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Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam
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Verse 3
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Raise high the roof beams carpenter boy,
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yeah we're coming through the rye
In the cinema I saw the man on the moon,
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I laughed so hard I cried
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It was somewhere in those rainy seasons,
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that I learned to carve my song
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Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Oh Africa, Mother Africa,
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you lay heavy on my breast
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You old cradle of civilization,
heart of darkness blood and death
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Verse 5
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Though we had to play you running scared,
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when the crocodile ate the sun
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Yeah, East of Woodstock,
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West of Vietnam
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Verse 6
Well I think it's going to rain tonight,
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I can smell it coming off the sea
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As I sit here reading old Graham Greene
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I taste Africa on every page
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Then I close my eyes and see
those red clay roads,
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and it's sundown and boys I'm gone
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Verse 7
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Raise high the roof beams carpenter boy,
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yeah we're coming through the rye
It was a moveable feast of war and memory,
a dark old lullaby
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It was the smoke of a thousand camp fires,
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it was the wrong end of a gun,
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Verse 8
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Yeah, East of Woodstock,
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West of Vietnam
Outro 1
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