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Bruce Cockburn - Lovers In A Dangerous Time
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Bruce Cockburn - Wondering Where The Lions Are
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Bruce Cockburn - Hoop Dancer
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Bruce Cockburn - Look How Far
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Bruce Cockburn - Messenger Wind
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Bruce Cockburn - One Day I Walk
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Bruce Cockburn - Trickle Down
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Bruce Cockburn - Tropic Moon
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Bruce Cockburn - A Long Time Love Song
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Bruce Cockburn - All The Ways I Want You
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Bruce Cockburn - And We Dance
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Bruce Cockburn - Birmingham Shadows
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Bruce Cockburn - Candy Man's Gone
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Bruce Cockburn - Change Your Mind
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Bruce Cockburn - Clocks Don't Bring Tomorrow - Knives Don't Bring
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Bruce Cockburn - Dancing In Paradise
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Bruce Cockburn - Different When It Comes To You
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Bruce Cockburn - Dweller By A Dark Stream
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Bruce Cockburn - It Come Upon The Midnight
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Bruce Cockburn - Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long
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Bruce Cockburn - Nicaragua
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Bruce Cockburn - Postcards From Cambodia
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Bruce Cockburn - Rumours Of Glory
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Bruce Cockburn - See How I Miss You
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Bruce Cockburn - See You Tomorrow
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Bruce Cockburn - Slow Down Fast
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Bruce Cockburn - Someone I Used To Love
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Bruce Cockburn - Stained Glass
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Bruce Cockburn - Stolen Land
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Bruce Cockburn - The Whole Night Sky
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Bruce Cockburn - Tibetan Side Of Town
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Bruce Cockburn - To Raise The Morning Star
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Bruce Cockburn - Wait No More
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Bruce Cockburn - Waiting For a Miracle
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Bruce Cockburn - Yanqui Go Home
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Bruce Cockburn - You've Never Seen Everything
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Bruce Cockburn - A Dream Like Mine
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Bruce Cockburn - A Life Story
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Bruce Cockburn - A Montreal Song
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Bruce Cockburn - After The Rain
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Bruce Cockburn - All The Diamonds In The World
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Bruce Cockburn - All's Quiet On The Inner City Front
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Bruce Cockburn - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
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Bruce Cockburn - Anything Can Happen
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Bruce Cockburn - Arrows Of Ligh
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Bruce Cockburn - Arrows Of Light
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Bruce Cockburn - Badlands Flashback
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Bruce Cockburn - Berlin Tonight
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Bruce Cockburn - Bone In My Ear
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Bruce Cockburn - Bright Sky
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Bruce Cockburn - Broken Wheel
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Bruce Cockburn - Burn
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Bruce Cockburn - Call It a Democracy
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Bruce Cockburn - Can I Go With You
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Bruce Cockburn - Child Of The Wind
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Bruce Cockburn - Christmas Song
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Bruce Cockburn - Civilization And Its Discontents
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Bruce Cockburn - Closer To The Light
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Bruce Cockburn - Coldest Night Of The Year
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Bruce Cockburn - Creation Dream
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Bruce Cockburn - Cry Of A Tiny Babe
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Bruce Cockburn - Deja Vu
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Bruce Cockburn - Dialogue With The Devil - Or Why Don't We Celebrate?
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Bruce Cockburn - Don't Feel Your Touch
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Bruce Cockburn - Down In Yon Forest
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Bruce Cockburn - Dust and Diesel
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Bruce Cockburn - Going To The Country
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Bruce Cockburn - He Came From The Mountain
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Bruce Cockburn - Hills Of Morning
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Bruce Cockburn - How I Spent My Fall Vacation
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Bruce Cockburn - I Wanna Dance With You
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Bruce Cockburn - If a Tree Falls
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Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher
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Bruce Cockburn - In The Falling Dark
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Bruce Cockburn - Incandescent Blue
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Bruce Cockburn - Joy Will Find a Way
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Bruce Cockburn - Justice
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Bruce Cockburn - Last Night Of The World
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Bruce Cockburn - Laughter
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Bruce Cockburn - Let Us Go Laughing
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Bruce Cockburn - Life's Mistress
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Bruce Cockburn - Listen For The Laugh
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Bruce Cockburn - Little Seahorse
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Bruce Cockburn - Live On My Mind
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Bruce Cockburn - Loner
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Bruce Cockburn - Lord of the Starfields
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Bruce Cockburn - Love Song
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Bruce Cockburn - Making Contact
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Bruce Cockburn - Mary Had a Baby
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Bruce Cockburn - Maybe The Poet
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Bruce Cockburn - Montreal Song
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Bruce Cockburn - Musical Friends
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Bruce Cockburn - My Beat
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Bruce Cockburn - Never So Free
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Bruce Cockburn - Night Train
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Bruce Cockburn - No Footprints
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Bruce Cockburn - Northern Lights
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Bruce Cockburn - Of The Angel Beast
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Bruce Cockburn - On The Coldest Night Of The Year
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Bruce Cockburn - Open
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Bruce Cockburn - Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
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Bruce Cockburn - Pacing The Cage
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Bruce Cockburn - Put It In Your Heart
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Bruce Cockburn - Put Our Hearts Together
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Bruce Cockburn - Rainfall
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Bruce Cockburn - Red Brother Red Sister
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Bruce Cockburn - Shepherds
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Bruce Cockburn - Silver Wheels
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Bruce Cockburn - Soul Of a Man
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Bruce Cockburn - Spring Song
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Bruce Cockburn - Starwheel
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Bruce Cockburn - Strange Waters
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Bruce Cockburn - The Charity Of Night
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Bruce Cockburn - The Coming Rains
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Bruce Cockburn - The Mines Of Mozambique
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Bruce Cockburn - The Strong One
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Bruce Cockburn - The Thirteenth Mountain
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Bruce Cockburn - The Trouble With Normal
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Bruce Cockburn - Together Alone
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Bruce Cockburn - Tokyo
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Bruce Cockburn - Tried And Tested
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Bruce Cockburn - Waiting For The Moon
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Bruce Cockburn - Wanna Go Walking
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Bruce Cockburn - When The Sun Goes Nova
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Bruce Cockburn - World Of Wonders
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Bruce Cockburn - You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance
Dancing In Paradise
Bruce Cockburn
canoes prowl reef in early morning sun
as it flashes on the rhythmic fall of weed cutter's cutlass blade
everybody's got something to sell besides the obvious dollars and dope
aloe rub, starfish, vegetable patties, braid your hair miss and bush doctor cures
sudden angry eruption between aloe peddler and man with property to protect
muscular security guard with truncheon of twisted wire
"kiss my blood clot" she hisses and they're enemies for life
in the beach front bar they're playing reggae versions of Jim Reeves' Greatest Hits
the waitress sings along, eyes focused dreamily on that sentimental world
and there's DANCING in PARADISE...
blue green ship in turquoise bay
swollen bauxite-red river rushing
stream rising from feathered bamboo hills
tracks once paved now falling away into deep lush valleys
and the farmed-out road contracts pass through so many hands
the print erodes with the weather-worn blacktop
and the jungle's always trying to reclaim the right of way
and the mangoes cacao turmeric goats soursop
mushrooms cane plantains limes
horses crayfish long-legged birds donkeys
curved horns of cattle above dense grass
ganja sensitive plant ackee
and some thorn whose prick brings lockjaw
and tires torn by sharp yellow rocks --
young girl stares pensively from dark door in pale blue wall
Big About and friends at their crossroads bar
with its dirt corral for dancing
drink soursop juice all day long
in quest of the perpetual stiff bamboo
and there's DANCING in PARADISE...
Biggy Dread gunned down by police at Big Bridge March 16
riding a mule cart to Sav-la-Mar pulled out a cutlass and they had to shoot
that's what they say
something tells me they like to shoot
something in the eyes of the ones at the road block
where they searched the car and tried to get us to confess to whatever...
there's truncheons and gas down in Harbour St. --
typical response where life isn't so sweet
and somebody gets desperate enough to say so --
price of fish price of flour
going up up up almost by the hour
and they throw away money on spectacular shows
to show the world the right likes the right music
and the Prime Minister sucks ice cream in the company of a happy band of children
while a naked man, sores on his neck,
lies for days in Washington Blvd. gnawing chicken bones
and the Chamber of Commerce thinks there's too much crime
and there's a kung fu movie in every town
and there's DANCING in PARADISE...