I'm Not There movie - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues lyrics

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Song by Ramblin' Jack Elliott<br /><br>

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez <br>

And it's Eastertime too <br>

And your gravity fails <br>

And negativity don't pull you through <br>

Don't put on any airs <br>

When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue <br>

They got some hungry women there <br>

And they really make a mess outa you <br>

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Now if you see Saint Annie <br>

Please tell her thanks a lot <br>

I cannot move <br>

My fingers are all in a knot <br>

I don't have the strength <br>

To get up and take another shot <br>

And my best friend, my doctor <br>

Won't even say what it is I've got <br>

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Sweet Melinda <br>

The peasants call her the goddess of gloom <br>

She speaks good English <br>

And she invites you up into her room <br>

And you're so kind <br>

And careful not to go to her too soon <br>

And she takes your voice <br>

And leaves you howling at the moon <br>

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Up on Housing Project Hill <br>

It's either fortune or fame <br>

You must pick up one or the other <br>

Though neither of them are to be what they claim <br>

If you're lookin' to get silly <br>

You better go back to from where you came <br>

Because the cops don't need you <br>

And man they expect the same <br>

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Now all the authorities <br>

They just stand around and boast <br>

How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms <br>

Into leaving his post <br>

And picking up Angel who <br>

Just arrived here from the coast <br>

Who looked so fine at first <br>

But left looking just like a ghost <br>

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I started out on burgundy <br>

But soon hit the harder stuff <br>

Everybody said they'd stand behind me <br>

When the game got rough <br>

But the joke was on me <br>

There was nobody even there to call my bluff <br>

I'm going back to New York City <br>

I do believe I've had enough<br>

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