Affair on Eighth Avenue
By: Gordon Lightfoot
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The perfume that she wore was from some little store on the down side of town.
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But it lingered on long after she?d gone, I remember it well.
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And our fingers entwined like ribbons of light,
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And we came through a doorway somewhere in the night.
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Her long flowing hair came softly undone in a pile all around.
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And she brushed it down as I stood by her side in the warmth of her love.
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And she showed me her treasures of paper and tin,
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And we played a game only she could win.
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And she told me a riddle I?ll never forget
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And left with the answer I've never found yet.
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How long,said she, Can a moment like this belong to someone
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Whats wrong, what is right? For to live or to die,
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We all must be born.
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So, if you should ask me what secrets I hide,
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I’m only your lover, don’t make me decide!
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The perfume that she wore was from some little store on the down side of town.
Em D Am Bm C D
But it lingered on long after she?d gone, I remember it well.
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And she showed me her treasures of paper and tin,
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And we played a game only she could win.
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And our fingers entwined like ribbons of light
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And we came through a doorway somewhere in the night.
