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I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

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Robert Hunter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1941
Born: June 23
Died: 2019
Died: September 23
Guitarist
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Musician
Poet
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Songwriter
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Arroyo Grande
California
Robert C. Christie Hunter
Robert Burns
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Sink
Learn
Ship
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At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
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Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
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If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?
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Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
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When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.
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Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair
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When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.
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There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live
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The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
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The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.
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River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home
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