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Any Major Dude Will Tell Ya...(Steely Dan lyrics thread)

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Anonymous:
And they wandered in
From the city of St. John
Without a dime
Wearing coats that shined
Both red and green
Colors from their sunny island
From their boats of iron
They looked upon the promised land
Where surely life was sweet
On the rising tide
To New York City
Did they ride into the street
See the glory
Of the royal scam

They are hounded down
To the bottom of a bad town
Amid the ruins
Where they learn to fear
An angry race of fallen kings
Their dark companions
While the memory of
Their southern sky was clouded by
A savage winter
Every patron saint
Hung on the wall, shared the room
With twenty sinners

See the glory
Of the royal scam

By the blackened wall
He does it all
He thinks he's died and gone to heaven
Now the tale is told
By the old man back home
He reads the letter
How they are paid in gold
Just to babble in the back room
All night and waste their time
And they wandered in
From the city of St. John without a dime

See the glory
Of the royal scam

starry-eyed pirate:
CHORUS:
While the Poor people sleepin
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night

After closin time
At the Guernsey fair
I detect the El Supremo
From the top of the stairs
Well I've been around the world
And I've been to the Washington Zoo
And in all my travels
As the facts unravel
I've found this to be true

CHORUS

They got the house on the corner
With the rug inside
They got the booze they need
All that money can buy
They got the shapely bods
They got the Steely Dan T-shirt
And for the coup-de-gras
They're outrageous

CHORUS

Show biz kidz makin movies
Of themselves, You know they
Don't give a fuck about anybody else

CHORUS

Anonymous:
Just heard an interview w/ Donald Fagan on Sirius radio.  Not bad, they played his new solo album and some Steely Dan stuff in between questions.

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