Tangier
Kid Ulysses
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Yeah my angels seemed to disappear Yeah they left me high and dry The clues were painted like blood on brick With red across the sky We should should've turned our vessel 'round But they were anxious to deny The signals coming 'cross the waves As our steamship rocked about Caught me running guns in Cairo Bounty men cut my ticket short So we took high water chances Had to have my head up on his wall But I knew things were going south Captain came down from the deck Said, "We're flooding in the lower bout" And released me from my cell Oh my little darling It should come as no surprise I did all the things they say I've done And it's gonna cost my life Lost two fingers to The Baron I fixed one too many fights But when you're playing odds in Tangier Your luck runs out from time to time Yeah the engine room caught fire Yeah our engine she burned out And exploded in the dead of night Like a firework by the shore The whitewater drank us quickly Our ship tangoed with the rocks And with our ship those ancient seas Drank the Egyptian engine boy I had the leather boots they gave me To help me scale the beach Watched the riptide take two others Mud swallow the first mate Our sails whipped tatters in the torrent Shreds of ribbon in the wind As the captain pulled me by my chains And put his pistol 'gainst my head Oh my little darling It should come as no surprise I did all the things they say I've done And it's gonna cost my life Yeah I stole his car and drove wrong way Held court with The Baron's wife When you're meeting girls in Tangier Love ain't always on your side The desert spanned a vast horizon No definition to the lines And all I had was my treasure trove Of ghosts to help me pass the time By the third day we were followed By a rider dressed in black And that rider never spoke a word He just tracked us as we dragged Until we lost Jess to madness And Sam to his mirage The captain to an oasis harm Before that rider wandered off And my lips were cracked and blistered My skin was caked with sand When I saw a brilliant red balloon Float above where I'd collapsed Oh my little darling It should come as no surprise I did all the things they say I've done And it's gonna cost my life Yeah the specter's hand looms closer But I ain't afraid to die When the sun sets over Tangier Luck ain't always on your side But as we came up over Tangier I took my boots up in my hand Let them drop five hundred meters Never saw them hit the sand And as we flanked those golden towers It felt funny to resolve My time in those boots they gave me The day we left Cairo on that barge And as we flanked those golden towers It felt funny to resolve My time in those boots they gave me I'm not a prisoner no more
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