Cyprus Avenue

Album: Astral Weeks (1968)
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  • Well, I'm caught one more time
    Up on Cyprus Avenue
    Caught one more time
    Up on Cyprus Avenue

    And I'm conquered in a car seat
    Not a thing that I can do
    I may go crazy
    Before that mansion on the hill
    I may go crazy
    Before that mansion on the hill
    But my heart keeps beating faster
    And my feet can't keep still
    And all the little girls rhyme something
    On the way back home from school
    And all the little girls rhyme something
    On the way back home from school
    And the leaves fall one by one
    And call the autumn time a fool
    Yeah, my t-tongue gets tied
    Every, every, every time I try to speak
    My tongue gets tied
    Every time I try to speak
    And my inside shakes just like a leaf on a tree
    I think I'll go on by the river with my cherry, cherry wine
    I believe I'll go walking by the railroad with my cherry, cherry wine
    If I pass the rumbling station where the lonesome engine drivers pine
    Wait a minute, yonder come my lady
    Rainbow ribbons in her hair
    Yonder come my lady
    Rainbow ribbons in her hair
    Six white horses and a carriage
    She's returning from the fair
    Baby, baby, baby

    Well, I'm caught one more time
    Up on Cyprus Avenue
    Caught one more time
    Up on Cyprus Avenue

    And I'm conquered in a car seat
    And I'm looking straight at you
    Way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on
    The avenue of trees
    Keep walking down
    In the wind and rain, darling
    You keep walking down when the sun shone through the trees
    Nobody, no, no, no, no, nobody stops me from loving you baby
    So young and bold, fourteen-year old
    Baby, baby, baby Writer/s: VAN MORRISON
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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