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Just a urchin livin under the street

I'm a hard case that's tough to beat

I'm your charity case so buy me something to eat

I'll pay you at another time

Take it to the end of the line

Rags to riches or so they say

Ya gotta keep pushin for the fortune and fame

It's all a gamble when it's just a game

Ya treat it like a capital crime

Everybody's doin the time

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Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home

Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber

Why I'm here I can't quite remember

The surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe

I'd have another cigarette but I can't see

Tell me who you're gonna believe

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So far away

So far away

So far away

So far away

Captain America's been torn apart

Now he's a court jester with a broken heart

He said turn me around and take me back to the start

I must be losing my mind "are you blind?"

I've seen it all a million times.

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