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And I found a girl in Capetown, I was with her three days straight
She showed up right on time, not too soon and not too late
And all that I remember was we barely left the room
And Iâm sure somewhere the sun came up and went back down again
And I open up my window, and the world is upside down
Oh, Capetown
And all I had was time and I drank me a few beers
And I Googled people that I hadnât seen in twenty years
And to my great surprise, when I typed in your name I learned
You were working in a chemical plant in Johannesburg
And Iâm hanging out in Capetown, and it ainât too far away
Maybe Iâll see you sometime in a Johannesburg café
Lots of folks live on the streets here and thereâs more all the time
But the water, sheâs beautiful, and thereâs plenty of good cheap wine
And if you crane your neck too far, thereâs a hand around your throat
And youâll wind up staring with your pockets clean from the bottom of a boat
When Gandhi came his eyes were blue, when he left his eyes were brown
Oh, Capetown
And I would gladly run off to the corners of the earth
But I find myself in Capetown by an accident of birth, yeah
I would gladly run off to the corners of the sky
But I find myself in Capetown, donât matter why
Oh, Capetown
Fallin I am fallin off the great table of space
Itâs all I can do to get up, splash water on my face
Capetown is my refuge, Capetown is my dare
If I canât make it in Capetown, never make it anywhere
All right then, enough of this ramblin, gonna take a look around
Oh, Capetown
- Album:
- Hoody
- Reno
- Hannukah Songs
- Drifter
- Fleeting Days
- New American Language
- Smartie Mine
- Miscellaneous
- Fifty Eggs
- Dan Bern
- Non-Album Releases
- Three Feet Tall
- Live in Los Angeles
- Dan Bern Live In Los Angeles
- Doubleheader
- 2 Feet Tall
- Two Feet Tall
- Songs of Fall
- The Swastika EP
- Delicatessen, Volume 5: Cooking Vinyl Sampler 2003