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Artist: John Fogerty
Canonical path: /john-fogerty/the-wall
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Wall
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The Wall
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Well thunder, lightning, strike me down, I do believe I see,
A ghostly figure on the ground, fallen to his knees.
CHORUS:
And the wall gets higher, so you could not see,
I said the wall gets higher, so you could not see.
Well the lightning flash, the cannon roar, the ground begin to
shake,
The people wondered but they heard no more, but the Big Chief
will not wait.
CHORUS
Well!
Well a beast so bad it put me to bed, but the air was thick and
deep,
The people wonder but they heard no more, the mountain would not
speak.
CHORUS
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Run tonight, run tonight oh,
Risin' right now, risin' right now.
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John Fogerty performs "The Wall", and this lyric page sits inside the John Fogerty catalog on LyroVerse.
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