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Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Page - Sunday Concert

United Artists UAS-6714 - October 1969
recorded March 1969 in Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Bob Dylan)

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Easter time too,
When your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgan avenue
They got some hungry women there and they really make a mess outa you!

Sweet Linda, do the peasants call her the Goddess of Doom?
She speaks good English and she invites you up into her room
And you're so kind, too careful not to go to her too soon
Then she steals your voice and leaves you howlin' at the moon!

Up a housing project, hell it's either fortune or fame
You must pick one or the other though neither of them is what they claim
And if you're lookin' to get silly you better go back to where you came
Because the cops don't need you and man, they expect the same!

I started out on Burgundy and then I hit the harder stuff
Everbody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough
But the joke was on me, there was nobody there to even call my bluff
I'm goin' back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough!