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  I slept last night in a good hotel

  I went shopping today for jewels

  The wind rushed around in the dirty town

  And the children let out from the schools

  I was standing on a noisy corner

  Waiting for the walking green

  Across the street he stood and he played real good

  On his clairinet for free

  Now me I play for fortune

  And those velvet curtain calls

  I've got a black limosuine and two gentlemen

  Escorting me to the halls

  And I'll play If you have the money

  Or if you're a friend to me

  But the one man band by the quick lunch stand

  He was playing real good for free

  Nobody stopped to hear him

  Though he played so sweet and high

  And they knew he had never been on their T.V.

  So they passed his music by

  I meant to go over and ask for a song

  Mayby put on a harmony

  I heard his refrain as the signal changed

  He was playing real good for free

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All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.