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Downtown Sundown [BBC Session 01/08/1977]

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Downtown Sundown [BBC Session 01/08/1977] Lyrics

If you want your freedom
There is nothing planned
If you really need him
I will understand

[Chorus]
Please believe in love
I believe there is a God above
For love
And He's coming, yes He's coming

If you want to fly
Then fly away
All the cloudy skies
Belong to yesterday

[Chorus]

In the shadows the swallow dies
No one knows the hobo hides
There is no need to apologize

This is the story of a downtown sundown
If you climb the mountain
You will see
There is no great distance
Between the Lord and me

[Chorus]

In the shadows a swallow dies
No one knows the hobo hides
There is no need to apologize
This is the story of a downtown sundown

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