Beat Folk

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[Verse]
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Champagne don't drive me crazy
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Cocaine don't make me lazy
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Ain't nobody's business but my own
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Candy is dandy, but liquor is 
quicker
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You can take all the liquor down in 
Costa Rica
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Ain't nobody's business but my own

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
(spoken)
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(Yeah, take it down a little)
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I discovered Buck Owens and Bob 
Dylan on the same night
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On an old wooden, tube driven radio
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 that belonged to my uncle, George 
Malloy
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I thought Buck and Bob were some 
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new form of hillbilly, beat folk 
music
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And then someone turned me on to 
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the writings of Charles Bukowski
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And his column, 'Notes Of A Dirty 
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Old Man' in Open City newspaper
And later on I'd actually meet 
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Bukowski on Hollywood and Vine
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Out on the street and we'd start to
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 correspond
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'Course at the Astro, there was 
Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Me and Sylvia, Light and Hopkins, 
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Mad Flipson
Later on I'd see Gram Parsons, 
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melting country and rock
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At the old Charlie Kaplan studios on
 La Brea
With Dave Van Ronk out east, the 
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Growling Minstrel
Whose voice would roar above the 
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drunken din at the White Horse 
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Tavern
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Where Dylan Thomas drank himself to 
death
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Man, a night in Dave Van Ronk's 
apartment, wow

[Verse]
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Well, champagne don't drive me crazy
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Cocaine don't make me lazy
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Ain't nobody's business but my own
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Yeah, candy is dandy, but liquor is 
quicker
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You can take all the liquor down in 
Costa Rica
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Ain't nobody's business but my own

[Otro]
Let's dig it now
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Ain't nobody's business but my own