| Standing on the corner, just me and yoko ono,
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| We was waiting for jerry to land.
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| Up come a man with a guitar in his hand,
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| Singing, «have a marijuana, if you can.»
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| His name was david peel and we found that he was real,
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| He sang, «the pope smokes dope evryday.»
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| Up come a policeman, shoved us of the street,
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| Singing, «power to the people today.»
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| New york city!
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| New york city!
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| New york city!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Hey! |
| hey!
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| Well, down to maxs, kansas city, got down the nitty gritty
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| With the elephants memory band.
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| Laid something down as the news spread around
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| About the plastic ono elephants memory band.
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| Well, we played some funky boogie, and laid some tutti fritti,
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| Singing, «long tall sallys a man.»
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| Up come a preacher man, tryin to be a teacher,
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| Singing, «gods a red herring in drag!»
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| New york city!
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| New york city!
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| New york city!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Ha! |
| ha!
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| Hey! |
| hey! |
| hey! |
| hey!
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| Hey!
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| Oh yeah!
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| Hey! |
| new york city!
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| Alright, new york city!
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| New york city!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Hey! |
| hey!
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| Well, we did the staten island ferry, making movies for the telly,
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| Played the fillmore and apollo for freedom.
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| Tried to shake our image, just a-cycling through the village,
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| But we found that we had left it back in london.
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| Well, nobody came to bug us, hustle us or shove us,
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| We decided to make it our home.
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| If the man wants to shove us out, we gonna jump and shout,
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| The statue of liberty said, «come!»
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| New york city!
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| New york city!
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| New york city!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Hey! |
| hey!
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| Oh, new york!
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| Uh, uh, uh.
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| Well, new york, yeh,
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| Alright!
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| Oh, new york city!
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| Back in new york city!
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| Yeah, new york city!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Ass city!
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| Down in the village,
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| Yeah, what a city!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Yeah, rock on!
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| Ow! |
| uh!
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| Yeah!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Hey! |
| what a bad, bad city!
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| Bad-ass city!
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| Bad-ass city!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Hey, city! |
| city!
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| Another version
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| Recorded live at the madison square garden, new york, n.y. |
| 30 august 1972
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| Power to the people!
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| Power to the people!
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| Power to the people!
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| Power to the people!
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| Power to the people!
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| Power to the people!
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| Power to the people!
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| Power to the people!
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| Power to the people!
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| Two, three, four!
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| Standing on the corner, just me and yoko ono,
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| We was waiting for her hour to land,
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| Up come a man with a guitar in his hand,
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| «have marijuana if you can.»
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| Well, his name was david peel
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| And we found that he was real,
|
| «the pope smokes dope evry day.»
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| Up come the police, shoved us off the street,
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| Singing, «power to the people today!»
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| New york city!
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| Madison square garden!
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| Hey!
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| Whats happenin, man?
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| Went back to kansas city, laid down the nitty gritty
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| With the elephants memory band.
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| Laid something down as the news spread around
|
| About the plastic ono elephants memory band.
|
| Played some tutti frutti and played some funky boogie,
|
| «long tall sallys a man!»
|
| Up come the preacherman, tryin to be a teacher,
|
| Singing, «gods a red herring in drag!»
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| New york city!
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| New york city!
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| New york city!
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Que pasa, new york?
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| Hey!
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| Ow!
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| Ooh!
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| Well, new york city, babe!
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| New york!
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| New york city!
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| Yeah, new york city!
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| Down in the village!
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| New york city!
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| Come on, hit it!
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| Ah, what a bad ass city!
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| Yeah!
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| Roll over! |