| From somewhere outside I hear the street vendor cry file' gumbo
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| Through my window I see him going down the street and he don’t know
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| That she fell right to sleep in the damp
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| Tangled sheet so soon
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| After love in the hot afternoon
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| Now the bourbon street lady sleeps like a baby in the shadows
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| She was new to me and fully of mystery but now I know
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| That she’s just a girl and I’m just a guy in the room
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| For love in the hot afternoon
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| We got high in the park this morning and we sat without talking
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| Then we came back here in the heat of the day tired of walking
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| Where under her breathe she hummed to herself a tune
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| Of love in the hot afternoon
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| Now the bourbon street lady sleeps like a baby in the shadows
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| She was new to me and fully of mystery but now I know
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| That she’s just a girl and I’m just a guy in the room
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| For love in the hot afternoon |