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Refectory Mission San Gabriel	A
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Good said the Padre believe me still	B
Don Giovanni or what you will	B
The type's eternal We knew him here	C
As Don Diego del Sud I fear	D
The story's no new one Will you hear	C
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One of those spirits you can't tell why	E
God has permitted Therein I	E
Have the advantage for I hold	F
That wolves are sent to the purest fold	F
And we'd save the wolf if we'd get the lamb	G
You're no believer Good I am	G
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Well for some purpose I grant you dim	H
The Don loved women and they loved him	H
Each thought herself his LAST love Worst	I
Many believed that they were his FIRST	I
And such are these creatures since the Fall	J
The very doubt had a charm for all	J
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You laugh You are young but I indeed	K
I have no patience To proceed	K
You saw as you passed through the upper town	L
The Eucinal where the road goes down	L
To San Felipe There one morn	M
They found Diego his mantle torn	M
And as many holes through his doublet's band	N
As there were wronged husbands you understand	N
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Dying so said the gossips Dead	O
Was what the friars who found him said	O
May be Quien sabe Who else should know	P
It was a hundred years ago	P
There was a funeral Small indeed	K
Private What would you To proceed	K
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Scarcely the year had flown One night	Q
The Commandante awoke in fright	Q
Hearing below his casement's bar	R
The well known twang of the Don's guitar	R
And rushed to the window just to see	S
His wife a swoon on the balcony	S
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One week later Don Juan Ramirez	T
Found his own daughter the Dona Inez	T
Pale as a ghost leaning out to hear	C
The song of that phantom cavalier	D
Even Alcalde Pedro Blas	U
Saw it was said through his niece's glass	V
The shade of Diego twice repass	V
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What these gentlemen each confessed	W
Heaven and the Church only knows At best	W
The case was a bad one How to deal	X
With Sin as a Ghost they couldn't but feel	X
Was an awful thing Till a certain Fray	Y
Humbly offered to show the way	Y
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And the way was this Did I say before	Z
That the Fray was a stranger No Senor	Z
Strange very strange I should have said	O
That the very week that the Don lay dead	O
He came among us Bread he broke	A2
Silent nor ever to one he spoke	A2
So he had vowed it Below his brows	B2
His face was hidden There are such vows	B2
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Strange are they not You do not use	C2
Snuff A bad habit	D2
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Well the views	E2
Of the Fray were these that the penance done	F2
By the caballeros was right but one	F2
Was due from the CAUSE and that in brief	G2
Was Dona Dolores Gomez chief	G2
And Inez Sanchicha Concepcion	H2
And Carmen well half the girls in town	L
On his tablets the Friar had written down	L
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These were to come on a certain day	Y
And ask at the hands of the pious Fray	Y
For absolution That done small fear	D
But the shade of Diego would disappear	D
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They came each knelt in her turn and place	I2
To the pious Fray with his hidden face	I2
And voiceless lips and each again	J2
Took back her soul freed from spot or stain	K2
Till the Dona Inez with eyes downcast	L2
And a tear on their fringes knelt her last	L2
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And then perhaps that her voice was low	P
From fear or from shame the monks said so	P
But the Fray leaned forward when presto all	J
Were thrilled by a scream and saw her fall	J
Fainting beside the confessional	A
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And so was the ghost of Diego laid	M2
As the Fray had said Never more his shade	M2
Was seen at San Gabriel's Mission Eh	N2
The girl interests you I dare say	Y
Nothing said she when they brought her to	O2
Only a faintness They spoke more true	O2
Who said 'twas a stubborn soul But then	J2
Women are women and men are men	J2
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So to return As I said before	Z
Having got the wolf by the same high law	P2
We saved the lamb in the wolf's own jaw	P2
And that's my moral The tale I fear	D
But poorly told Yet it strikes me here	C
Is stuff for a moral What's your view	O2
You smile Don Pancho Ah that's like you	O2

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