Ballad Of Elizabeth Dark

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[Verse 1]
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Let me sing you the ballad of Elizabeth Dark
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I been workin on it since the time
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We hung out at this coffeehouse
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In Rogers Park
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Like two kids at a five & dime
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She would read Dostoevsky
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By the yellow moon
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That hung like an orange in the tree
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While I worked on the words
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To the mystery tune
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Of Elizabeth Dark & me

[Verse 2]
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This was back in the days
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Of the folk music craze
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Lenny & poetry & jazz
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Cats & chicks snappin their fingers
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To Lord Buckley doing The Nazz
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Kierkegaard Ginsberg
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Sartre & free love
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Parties to cover the rent
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We all wanted to be existentialists
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None of us knew what the hell it meant

[Chorus]
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Now I take the El to Loyola
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And I walk along the Sheridan sand
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Where the waves are breakin over the jetty
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Where the wind is like an icy hand
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Fyodor says that the criminal
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Always returns to the scene of the crime
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Maybe I'll see Elizabeth D one more time.

[Verse 3]
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Her hair was long and flowin
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A river of zen down her back
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We had spaghetti with Ferlinghetti
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And wine with Jack Kerouac
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Things were real cool
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One day I came home from school
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And Elizabeth Dark wasn't there
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No river of raven zen hair
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No Dark at the top of the stairs

[Chorus]
      D                 F#m/C#
Now I take the El to Loyola
      Bm                      D/A
And I walk along the Sheridan sand
          Em                         A
Where the waves are breakin over the jetty
          F#m7                Em7  A7
Where the wind is like an icy hand
D                    D7/C
Fyodor says that the criminal
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Always returns to the scene of the crime
D/A            Em          A        D
Maybe I'll see Elizabeth D one more time.

[Verse 4]
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Sometimes I get out my old bongos
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Reminisce about makin the scene
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Read my tarot
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Tell my fortune from grounds
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In a beat up espresso machine
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I'm a beatnik lost in the future
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Like a Model T Ford out in space
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Still as in love with Elizabeth Dark
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As the first time I saw her face

[Chorus]
      D                 F#m/C#
Now I take the El to Loyola
      Bm                      D/A
And I walk along the Sheridan sand
          Em                         A
Where the waves are breakin over the jetty
          F#m7                Em7  A7
Where the wind is like an icy hand
D                    D7/C
Fyodor says that the criminal
       G/B                         Gm/Bb
Always returns to the scene of the crime
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Maybe I'll see Elizabeth D one more time,
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Maybe I'll see Elizabeth D one more time.