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♪ Find an electrical band in the back room ♪
♪ To wait for the show ♪
♪ After jobs all night they don't feel quite right ♪
♪ When they should be there and ready to go ♪
♪ The first three rows are clapping ♪
♪ Try to get the next group on ♪
♪ Every band seems to care somebody out there ♪
♪ The clap when the song is done ♪
♪ Cause you know how they can be ♪
♪ How they are sometimes ♪
♪ Minstrel, minstrel play your song and go away ♪
♪ Minstrel, minstrel hang on tomorrow's another day ♪
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♪ To find that band got a disappointing cast ♪
♪ They ran to the top of the stage ♪
♪ There was no sound at all in the overflowing hall ♪
♪ Except somebody turning a page of a program to five ♪
♪ They were group number nine on a marathon show of ten ♪
♪ They had a hit record but no one remembered what it was till they played it again ♪
♪ Cause you know how they can be how they are sometimes ♪
♪ The next band to play was the hit of the day ♪
♪ Local boys who got famous by making a noise ♪
♪ They called supersonic, stereophonic, space age beers ♪
♪ They were four very talented boys ♪
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♪ The five man electrical band on the highway talking about the day gone by ♪
♪ After driving all night they weren't feeling quite right ♪
♪ They were down and wondering why ♪
♪ Well life is just one continuous bad disillusioning dream ♪
♪ Anyone who tries to reach for the sky gets caught living in between ♪
♪ Cause you know how they can be how they are sometimes ♪
♪ Minstrel, minstrel play your song and go away ♪
♪ Minstrel, minstrel hang on tomorrow's another day ♪
♪ Minstrel, minstrel play your song and go away ♪