Miranda (from the cd Ballroom Streets)

Words and Music by Phil Ochs

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Do you have some problems

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Would you like someone to solve them

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Would you like someone to share in your misery
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Well I don't know the answer
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But I know a flamenco dancer
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Who will dance for you if you will dance for me
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Her name's Miranda
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She's a Rudolph Valentino fan
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And she doesn't claim to understand
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She bakes brownies for the boys in the band

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And every Sunday morning
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When the sermon lines are forming
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And Saturday night is a memory that I gave aah
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She's busy in the pantry
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Far away from Elmer Gantry
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Who is busy baking souls that he may save
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Everybody's soul but Miranda
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She's a Rudolph Valentino fan
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And she doesn't claim to understand
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She bakes brownies for the boys in the band

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La la la la la la la Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh 

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Oh oh oh oh oh La la la la la la la Oh oh oh oh 

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At the bar we're gin & scotchin
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While the F.B.I. is watching
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And they're tape recording every other word
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The Bartender is bleeding
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Pardon me I was just leaving
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As another cleaver voice repeats absurd so
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Everybody's talking about Miranda
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She's a Rudolph Valentino fan
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And she doesn't claim to understand
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She bakes brownies for the boys in the band
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Her name's Miranda
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Her name's Miranda
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Her name's Miranda

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