It
all began so quietly
At Hamline University
Where my old partner Dan and me
We started
A couple guys with
old guitars
Who dreamed of girls and being stars
We played are songs at local bars around St Paul
A '68 Le Sabre drove
us
Down to old New Mexico
We played for queens and in Taos we were something
We sang the bi-centennial
song
We played out on the Governor's lawn
And those Spanish evenings come and gone still haunt me now
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But
it was hard going
Cause we were always strangers
It was hard going
We never had a dime
But we had music
We had great expectations
And we had all the time in the world |
After graduation day
We moved to California
A little house beside the bay in Hayward
We played for would-be
presidents
Worked in old folks homes to pay the rent
And an awful lot of good people went through our door.
We always found a
place to play
But Don he kind of passed away
And those small town values, baby, they were calling
So Dan left to look
for more
And I sold books from door to door
And the music that we'd played before was on our minds.
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And
the friends we found along the way
Made it all go easier.
Here's to Sid and Sal and Valerie and Linda Paloma, |
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