Powderfinger
Neil Young
 
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Look out, Ma, there's a white boat comin' up the river
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With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail
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I think you'd better call John
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'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
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And it's less than a mile away
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I hope they didn't come to stay
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It's got numbers on the side and a gun
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and it's makin' big waves
 
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Daddy's gone and my brother's out huntin' in the mountains
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Big John's been drinkin' since the river took Emmy Lou
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So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin'
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And I just turned twenty-two
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I was wonderin' what to do
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And the closer they got
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The more those feelin's grew
 
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Jam here -->
 
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Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin’
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He told me "Red means run, son, and numbers add up to nothin'"
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When the first shot hit the dock I saw it comin'
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Raised my rifle to my eye
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Never stopped to wonder why
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Then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky
 
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- then Jam again -->
 
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Shelter me from the powder and the finger
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Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
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Just think of me as one you never figured
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Would fade away so young
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So much left undone
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Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her