Medley: Cleaning Windows / The Street Only Knew Your Name - Live

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Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street
 Got in my nose
 As we carried our ladders down the streets
 With the wrought-iron gate rows
 I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams
 In my lunch break
 Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner
 And went straight back to work
 Sam was up on top and Jim was on the bottom with the V, yeah
 We went for lemonade and Paris buns at the shop and broke for tea, yeah
 I collected from the lady and I cleaned the fanlight inside-out, yeah
 I was blowing saxophone on the weekend
 Baby, in that down joint
 Tell me, what's my line?
 I'm happy cleaning windows
 Well, I'll take my time
 I'll see you when my love grows
 Baby, don't let it slide
 I'm a working man in my prime
 Cleaning windows
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 Heard Leadbelly and Blind Lemon on the street where I was born, yeah
 
 Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Muddy Waters singin' "I'm A Rolling Stone", yeah
 I love read my Christmas Humphreys' book on Zen
 Curiosity killed the cat
 Kerouac's "Dharma Bums" and "On The Road"
 Tell me, what's my line?
 I'm happy cleaning windows
 Well, I'll take my time
 I'll see you when my love grows
 Baby, don't let it slide
 I'm a working man in my prime
 Cleaning windows
 Tell me, what's my line?
 I'm happy cleaning windows
 Well, I'll take my time
 I'll see you when my love grows
 Baby, don't let it slide
 I'm a working man in my prime
 Cleaning windows
 (Cleaning windows) We sang "Be-Bop-A-Lula", who swept on
 Tell me "What I'd say"
 "Shakin' all over", "Good golly Miss Molly" (cleaning windows)
 "Bop bopa-a-lu a whop bam boo", "Tutti Frutti"
 Bopin' the blues (cleaning windows)
 When I'm cleaning windows
 When I'm cleaning windows (cleaning windows)
 

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Duration
03:45
Key
5
Tempo
124 BPM

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