Desolation Row
Desolation Row is the Folk Music Scene in the early 1960's
Desolation Row is the Folk Music Scene in the early 1960's
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They’re selling postcards of the hanging<br />
The record companies are selling message songs about the civil rights movement,<br />
which of course opposed lynching. Now the Civil Rights Movement approves of it<br />
as long as it a White cop.<br />
They’re painting the passports brown<br />
In order to get anywhere in the music business you have to write about negroes<br />
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors<br />
Everything thing is the opposite of the way it should be, everything is perverted or<br />
a small lounge or sitting room affording limited privacy, as at an inn or tavern, the<br />
cafes of Greenwich Village are filled with militants.<br />
The circus is in town<br />
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