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Been out in Northport, hung on her short shorts
Livin' with a bottle of wine
The music, ladies, and burned-out babies
I was trying to write a couple of lines
Sheriff Gribbs and his grim ad-lib
Spoutin' about the crime in the street
And women was screamin', and some was dreamin'
'Bout the crimes between the sheets
You know that music died, hurt my pride
But somehow I pulled through
Back in '72
Somehow we made it to Baton Rouge
We stayed inside for a week
We weren't in town for no Mardi Gras
So we decided to sleep
Houston, yes, was a good old guest
Lord knows how bad we wanted to play
But we got homesick for Lincoln Park, imagine
And man we just couldn't stay
Tricky Dick, he played it slick
Something I was afraid he'd do
Back in '72
Oh, '72
Then all our new born philosophers
Our windows for the word
Pessimistic, pseudo-intellectual
Avant-gardish pearls
Taking notes on the Holocaust
Then copyin' it down on your sleeve
It was so hip to be negative
So square to try and believe
When the warden's cleared, it was what we feared
We learned nothing new
Back in '72
Oh, '72
Livin' with a bottle of wine
The music, ladies, and burned-out babies
I was trying to write a couple of lines
Spoutin' about the crime in the street
And women was screamin', and some was dreamin'
'Bout the crimes between the sheets
But somehow I pulled through
Back in '72
We stayed inside for a week
We weren't in town for no Mardi Gras
So we decided to sleep
Lord knows how bad we wanted to play
But we got homesick for Lincoln Park, imagine
And man we just couldn't stay
Something I was afraid he'd do
Back in '72
Oh, '72
Our windows for the word
Pessimistic, pseudo-intellectual
Avant-gardish pearls
Then copyin' it down on your sleeve
It was so hip to be negative
So square to try and believe
We learned nothing new
Back in '72
Oh, '72
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A song about traveling, and frustration with the politics of the time.
John Lennon was the first to coin the nickname "Tricky Dicky" for Richard Nixon, in the song "Gimme Some Truth."