Joan Baez

The Altar Boy And The Thief(Chords)

Joan Baez

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At night in the safety of shadows and numbers 
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Seeking some turf on which nothing encumbers 
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The buying and selling of casual looks 
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Stuff that gets printed in x-rated books 
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Your mother might have tried to understand 
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When you were hardly your daddy's little man 
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And you gave up saluting the chief 
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To find yourself some relief 

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Finely plucked eyebrows and skin of satin 
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Smiling seductive and endlessly Latin 
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Olympic body on dancing feet 
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Perfume thickening the air like heat 
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A transient star of gay bar fame 
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You quit your job and changed your name 
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And you're nearly beyond belief 
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As you hunt down a little relief 

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The seven foot black with the emerald ring 
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Broke up a fight without saying a thing 
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As the cops cruised by wanting one more chance 
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To send Jimmy Baldwin back over to France 
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And a trucker with kids and a wife 
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Prefers to spend half of his life 
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In early Bohemian motif 
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Playing pool and getting relief 

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My favorite couple was looking so fine 
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Dancing in rhythm and laughing in rhyme 
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In the light of the jukebox all yellow and blue 
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Holding each other as young lovers do 
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To me they will always remain 
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Unshamed, untamed, and unblamed 
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The altar boy and the thief 
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Grabbing themselves some relief 

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The altar boy and the thief 
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Catching a little relief
	        

Written by Joan Baez

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