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Artist: Jesse Malin
Canonical path: /jesse-malin/swinging-man
Related lyric paths: 6
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Swinging Man
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Swinging Man
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I am a swingin' man perpetually on the lamb
Free as a bird or the girls in Amsterdam
Yellow taxi ride hey I never exercise
The devil when I speak or when I rise
Buddy Holly told me you can't save rock n' roll
It's only for the lonely boys and girls
I'm a courageous cat down at the Laundromat
A sacred cow I never took a vow
Like old buildings and whores
Politicians and wars
All get respect man if they last this long
They used to call her Mary
She changed her name to Raph
Life was sometimes scary till she laughed
We never had a baby but she got more tattoos
And I got more material for the blues
Summer's rolling in
I want to lose this skin
They call it art but sometimes it's just sin
I am a swingin'man
Hey I smile on command
I don't know when or how you got to me
We never had a baby but she got more tattoos
And I got more material for the blues
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Jesse Malin performs "Swinging Man", and this lyric page sits inside the Jesse Malin catalog on LyroVerse.
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