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Once in the city of Kalamazoo	A
The gods went walking two and two	A
With the friendly phoenix the stars of Orion	B
The speaking pony and singing lion	B
For in Kalamazoo in a cottage apart	C
Lived the girl with the innocent heart	C
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Thenceforth the city of Kalamazoo	A
Was the envied intimate chum of the sun	B
He rose from a cave by the principal street	D
The lions sang the dawn horns blew	A
And the ponies danced on silver feet	D
He hurled his clouds of love around	E
Deathless colors of his old heart	C
Draped the houses and dyed the ground	E
O shrine of the wide young Yankee land	F
Incense city of Kalamazoo	A
That held in the midnight the priceless sun	B
As a jeweller holds an opal in hand	F
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From the awkward city of Oshkosh came	G
Love the bully no whip shall tame	G
Bringing his gang of sinners bold	H
And I was the least of his Oshkosh men	I
But none were reticent none were old	H
And we joined the singing phoenix then	I
And shook the lilies of Kalamazoo	A
All for one hidden butterfly	J
Bulls of glory in cars of war	K
We charged the boulevards proud to die	J
For her ribbon sailing there on high	J
Our blood set gutters all aflame	G
Where the sun slept without any heat	D
Cold rock till he must rise again	I
She made great poets of wolf eyed men	I
The dear queen bee of Kalamazoo	A
With her crystal wings and her honey heart	C
We fought for her favors a year and a day	L
Oh the bones of the dead the Oshkosh dead	M
That were scattered along her pathway red	M
And then in her harum scarum way	L
She left with a passing traveller man	N
With a singing Irishman	B
Went to Japan	N
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Why do the lean hyenas glare	O
'Where the glory of Artemis had begun	B
Of Atalanta Joan of Arc	P
Cinderella Becky Thatcher	Q
And Orphant Annie all in one	B
Who burned this city of Kalamazoo	A
Till nothing was left but a ribbon or two	A
One scorched phoenix that mourned in the dew	A
Acres of ashes a junk man's cart	C
A torn up letter a dancing shoe	A
And the bones of the dead the dead	M
Who burned this city of Kalamazoo	A
Love town Troy town Kalamazoo	A
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A harum scarum innocent heart	C

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