Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Van Dyke Parks
Canonical path: /van-dyke-parks/public-domain
Related lyric paths: 6
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Public domain
Read Public domain lyrics by Van Dyke Parks on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Public domain
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Our lowly liquor
lobby longs to back a road
to old time songs.
Biblebelts worn from here
and after all were
born in the know.
So rally round awhile
Jim Crow for I thought
I'd like to show
they can recall
the Alamo way down
in old Mexico.
I left Academia
amid sixty-two.
Was it sixty-one scholar
was cooled from the U.
Doubtless more on sore
wing than prayer
I up and just withdrew
to the wander round there.
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