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(BPM:98) I seen the arrow on the door post Sayin' this land is condemned All the way from New Orleans to Jerusalem Well I travelled through East Texas Where many a martyr fell And I know noone can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell I heard that hobo guy singing As they were takin' down the tent The stars above the barren trees was his only audience When charcoal gypsy maidens Construct their feathers well But nobody can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell BREAK See their big plantations burning Hear the cracking of their whips Smell that sweet magnolia bloom and see the ghosts of slavery ships I can hear the tribes a moanin' Hear their undertakers bell And I know noone can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell BREAK There's a woman by the river With some fine young handsome man He's dressed up like a squire bootleg whisky in his hand There's a chain gang on the highway I can hear their rebel yells And I know noone can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell BREAK God is in his heaven And we all want what's his But power and greed and corruptible seed seems to be all that there is I'm gazin' out the window Of that old St James Hotel And I know noone can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell And I know noone can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell And I know noone can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell And I know noone can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell Blind Willie McTell, blind Willie McTell, blind Willie McTell
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