[00:00.90]Songs Title：john doe no. 24
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[00:21.72]I was standing on this sidewalk in 1945 in jacksonville, illinois
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[00:32.26]When asked what my name was there came no reply
[00:36.49]They i said was a deaf and sightless half-wit boy
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[00:42.16]But lewis was my name though i could not say it
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[00:47.12]I was born and raised in new orleans
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[00:53.00]My spirit was wild so i let the river take it
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[00:57.62]On a barge and a prayer upstream
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[01:03.31]They searched for a mother and they searched for a father
[01:08.06]And they searched'til they searched no more
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[01:13.74]The doctors put to rest their scientific test
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[01:17.93]And they named me john doe no. 24
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[01:24.00]And they all shook their heads in pity
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[01:28.75]For a world so silent and dark
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[01:34.50]Well there's no doubt that life's a mystery
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[01:39.74]But so too is the human heart
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[01:43.75]And it was my heart's own perfume
[01:46.24]when the crape jasmine bloomed on st. charles avenue
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[01:55.42]Though i couldn't hear the bells of the streetcars coming
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[02:00.49]By toeing the track i knew
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[02:05.18]And if i were an old man returning
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[02:10.55]With my satchel and pork pie hat
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[02:16.24]I'd hit every jazz joint on bourbon
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[02:20.74]And i'd hit every one on basin after that
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[03:08.55]The years kept passing as they passed me around
[03:12.75]From one state ward to another
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[03:17.82]Like i was an orphaned shoe from the lost and found
[03:23.56]Always missing the other
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[03:28.50]They gave me a harp last christmas
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[03:33.69]And all the nurses took a dance
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[03:39.52]Lately i've been growing listless
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[03:44.01]Been dreaming again of the past
[03:48.03]I'm wandering down to the banks of the great big muddy
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[03:54.41]Where the shotgun houses stand
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[03:59.54]I am seven years old and i feel my daddy
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[04:05.23]Reach out for my hand
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[04:10.22]While i drew breath no one missed me
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[04:15.27]So they won't on the day that i cease
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[04:21.08]Put a sprig of crape jasmine with me
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[04:25.77]To remind me of new orleans
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[04:31.46]I was standing on this sidewalk in 1945 in jacksonville, illinois....