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Dear Mother |
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I'm lying on a white hot blanket |
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wishing you were here |
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we're a thousand miles from Cairo |
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and it's taken us a year to get this far |
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Dear Mother |
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I've grown a beard in the last three weeks |
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and I can't see nothing but sand |
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you wouldn't recognize me Mother |
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but I know you'd understand |
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Dear Mother |
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we spend the nights under canvas |
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dreaming of ice cold beer |
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and we spend the days in the desert |
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I miss you Mother dear |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Dear Mother |
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we found the Ten Commandments, Mother |
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just like I said we would |
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but somebody broke our compass, Mother |
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and the water is no good |
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And Beau said it was sabotage |
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so I laughed at him and said |
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Mother wouldn't let that happen, Beau |
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but Beau was dead |
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So I left him in the sand dunes |
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and I struck out on my own |
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with a page of hieroglyphics |
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and the tablets of stone |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Dear Mother |
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they attacked while I was sleeping |
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dreaming of ice cold beer |
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but when they saw what I was carrying |
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they backed away in fear |
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They said the hand of God is upon you |
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it is written on the wall, dear Mother |
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they must have thought I was Elijah or something |
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with the beard and all! |
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So they led me down to the catacombs |
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the walls were lined with bones |
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and a voice said he'd give me three of his wives |
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for just a glimpse of the stones |
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Dear Mother |
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I said that I had lost them |
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they were buried in the shifting sands |
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but they said if I didn't give them the tablets |
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they'd cut off both of my hands, Mother |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) dear Mother |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) Mother |
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Dear Mother |
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I'm running out of water, Mother |
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the map was a fake |
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now I'm stuck on the Devil's anvil, Mother |
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payin' for Beau's mistake |
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I woke up in a sandstorm |
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I'd had a terrible dream |
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I'd broken the Ten Commandments, Mother |
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I began to scream |
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But something else was out there |
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following the scent |
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and it cast the shadow of a cobra |
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on the walls of the tent |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Dear Mother |
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I hadn't got a rifle |
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or a dagger or a sword |
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so my only other weapon |
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as the word of the Lord |
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So when it wrapped itself around my body |
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and it started crushing bones |
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I had to make a decision, Mother |
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it was me or the stones |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Dear Mother |
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I'm lying on a white hot blanket |
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wishing you were here |
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I'm a thousand miles from Cairo |
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and it's taken me a year to get this far |
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to get this far |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
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Riding on Joey's camel |
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(how did you escape?) |
