Duvalier's Dream - chords, tab and comments
From his 1971 debut album "Kristofferson", later re-released as "Me and Bobby McGee": a rather underrated and seldom requested narrating song, demonstrating Kris' unique skill in songwriting. Related to "Casey's Last Ride", but still quite different.
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Duvalier was a bitter man who cursed the morning sun
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that brought a new betrayal every day
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he shunned the world of mortals and the sound of human tongues
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and blessed the night that chased their sight away
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a disillusioned dreamer who would never love again
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who'd tried of it and found that it was rotten
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prefering perfect strangers to the company of friends
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because strangers are so easily forgotten
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oh it's hard to keep believing when you know you've been decieved
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to face a lie and dare to try again
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but there's nothing like a woman with a spell of make believe
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to make a new believer of a man