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VICEROY’S Row
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Elvis Costello and The Roots
жанры: soul, rock, jazz
альбомы: Wise Up Ghost
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Now there's a crank in every crowd Sprinkling gunpowder Seems that everything is about to blow They lit the burning paper With a waxen taper Sitting up here on Viceroy's RowAnd they're gathering flowers In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go Watching the pipeline as it overflowed Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's RowHe made a fortune out of barbed wire In the last days of the Empire Built a cast-iron curtain Just to keep controlHe was a tycoon, then a cheapskate Went out looking for a keepsake To tuck into his suitcase on Viceroy's RowAnd they're gathering flowers In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go Watching the pipeline as it overflowed Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's RowHe had a satchel full of cash And dishes full of ashes He went from boom to bust In the blinking of a lashHeard the rat-a-tat of the late patrol Shooting out the lights up on Viceroy's RowAnd they're gathering flowers In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go They're coming for him slowly Now the war is over Sitting up here on Viceroy's RowThe woman in a blindfold She doesn't want her hand held Walking through a minefield Saying "How does this feel?" Stepping on the quicksand Going down slow Hiding up here on Viceroy's RowNothing satisfies The ruins of his blue eyes Like blood stains on a diamond mine And deep within you felt Not one measure of his guilt Staring in the dark up on Viceroy's RowYet her penitent lover Took a ribbon of rubber Tied her to the bed made of silken threadBut without an ounce of mercy They denounced him with a curse Hammering on the door upon Viceroy's RowNow his little concubine in her cemetery drag Her face all smeared with charcoal Is leaving all her cares, so Take 500 acres and see what you can sow We came to overthrow those on Viceroy's RowThey're gathering flowers In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go Watching the pipeline as it overflowed Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row
Это интересно:Ruffin got his start singing with Byron Lee and the Dragonaires briefly, before in 1967 joining The Techniques, one of the more successful rocksteady vocal groups of the late 1960s. There he sang alongside Pat Kelly, Winston Riley and Junior Menns. He was one of several talented singers to drift through the Techniques' ranks, but his stay with the group was highlighted by several rocksteady hits that he wrote, the most notable of which was "Love Is Not a Gamble".Restless, Ruffin left the Techniques a year later, returning in 1969 as a solo artist with the upbeat reggae song, "Long About Now".His greatest success came in the 1970s as a reggae-pop solo artist and... продолжение
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