A Face in the Crowd
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:29:03
If the ocean was moonshine
and I was a duck...

:29:07
I'd dive...
:29:11
I'm too tired
to sing this morning.

:29:14
Whas the matter with you
big city fellas anyhow?

:29:18
Don't you ever go to bed
around here?

:29:21
Last night, I settled down
for my 12 hour nap in the hotel...

:29:24
and moly hoses, what a honking...
:29:27
and lights a-flashing and
girls a-giggling on the street!

:29:30
So I called the desk on the telephone
they've got in every room.

:29:34
"Whas going on?" I said...
:29:36
"It ain't New Year's Eve,
by any chance?"

:29:38
"No," he said...
:29:41
"Is just ten o'clock at night
in Memphis".

:29:44
So I pulled back on my duds and went
out to see what the commotion was.

:29:49
Hey, Mr. Cameraman,
move that redeye a little closer.

:29:52
He's already telling us what to do.
:29:55
I want to talk face to face
with my friends out there.

:29:59
Which one of these holes
do I look in?

:30:06
One thing I could see right off
about a big city...

:30:10
there's a whole lot of people
in trouble out there.

:30:13
You don't see it much in the daytime
when everyone's hustling around...

:30:17
rushing from where they is
to where they ain't...

:30:20
but is at night,
late at night...

:30:23
around 4 o'clock in the morning
is what I call "the dividing line".

:30:28
All you've got left
is folks in trouble.

:30:32
I'm gonna tell you people something
happened to me this morning.

:30:37
I'm going to tell you, and see if
it don't happen to you the same way.

:30:42
If it don't move your hearts...
:30:45
you're just a bunch of
big city pickle hearts.

:30:47
I'll pack up my one shirt and
the Bible my daddy gave me...

:30:50
and my cigar box guitar...
:30:52
and I'll just get me
on home to Riddle.

:30:55
Is true about the one shirt,
but I've yet to see the Bible.

:30:59
The way he talks about the night,
I couldn't write it that well.


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