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My Enemies Have Sweet Voices

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My Enemies Have Sweet Voices

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I was in a bar called Paradise

When the fiddler from the band

Asked me "Why do you stand there crying?"

I answered him: "Musician, this may come as a surprise

I was trying to split the difference

And it split before my eyes

And my enemies have sweet voices

Their tones are soft and kind

When I hear my heart rejoices

I do not seem to mind"

I was playing Brag in Bedlam

And the doctor would not deal

Asking me: "Why do you kneel down there bleeding?"

I answered him "Physician,

I think you would have cried

I was falling back on failure

The failure stepped aside

And my enemies have sweet voices

Their tones are soft and kind

When I hear my heart rejoices

I do not seem to mind"

I was blind side to the gutter

And Merlin happened by

Asking me "why do you lie down there bleeding?"

I answered him "Magician, as a matter of a fact

I was jumping to conclusions

And one of them jumped back

And my enemies have sweet voices

Their tones are soft and kind

When I hear my heart rejoices

I do not seem to mind"

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