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"China Doll" lyrics

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"China Doll"

A pistol shot at 5 o'clock
The bells of heaven ring
"Tell me what you done it for"
"No I won't tell you a thing

"Yesterday I begged you
Before I hit the ground -
All I leave behind me
Is only what I found

"If you can abide it
Let the hurdy-gurdy play -
Stranger ones have come by here
Before they flew away

"I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny"
"I would ask the same of you
But failing will not die

"Take up your china doll
It's only fractured -
And just a little nervous
From the fall"


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Writer(s): Robert Hunter, Jerome Garcia
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album: "From The Mars Hotel" (1974)
Grateful Dead - From The Mars Hotel album cover
U.S. Blues
China Doll
Unbroken Chain
Loose Lucy
Scarlet Begonias
Pride Of Cucamonga
Money, Money
Ship Of Fools
live album: "Reckoning" (1981)
Grateful Dead - Reckoning live album cover
Dire Wolf
The Race Is On
Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie
It Must Have Been The Roses
Dark Hollow
China Doll
I've Been All Around This World
Monkey And The Engineer
Jack-A-Roe
Deep Elem Blues
Cassidy
To Lay Me Down
Rosa Lee McFall
On The Road Again
Bird Song
Ripple
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