While the music played

You worked by candle light

Those San Fransisco nights

You were the best in town

Just by chance you crossed

The diamond with the pearl

You turned it on the world

That's when you turned the world around

Did you feel like Jesus

Did you realize

That you were a champion in their eyes



On the hill the stuff

Was laced with kerosene

But yours was kitchen clean

Everyone stopped to stare

At your technicolor motorhome

Every A-Frame had your

Number on the wall

You must have had it all

You'd go down to LA on a dare

And you'd go it alone

Could you live forever

Could you see the day

Could you feel your whole world

Fall apart and fade away



Get along

Get along Kid Charlemagne

Get along Kid Charlemagne



Now the patrons have all

Left you in the red

Your low-rent friends are dead

This life can be very strange

All those day-glow freaks

Who used to paint the face

They've joined the human race

Some things will never change

Son you were mistaken

You are obsolete

Look at all the white men

On the street



Clean this mess up

Or we'll all end up in jail

Those test-tubes and the scale

Just get them all out of here

Is there gas in the car

I think the people down the hall

Know who you are

Careful what you carry

'Cause the man is wise

You are still an outlaw in their eyes





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