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Red Mustang on the Highway
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Red Mustang on the Highway
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By Uriah Lee Hamilton
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Why did we
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Ever drift apart?
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I know, I’ll never see
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A woman more astonishing
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Than you in a summer dress
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Standing elegantly on an apartment terrace
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Sunlight in your hair.
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Ah, love had me dreaming and believing!
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So many lovers smile in the night
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Swaying to music,
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Once we were there
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Locked arm in arm.
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One day, I’ll write the poem
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That paints perfectly your slender neck
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And your gentle hands
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Putting on earrings
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And then I’ll feel this magic forever.
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Dear sweet lady,
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There’s a red mustang on the highway,
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We should be driving at dusk
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To some sleepy seaport town
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Where we could drink whiskey sours
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On a beach scattered with starlight
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And translate the language of romance.
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There is only love,
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And I know I love you,
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My drunken heart is boasting
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As if I were worthy of knowing you!
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Jazz is playing in this city
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The neon signs and the streetlights
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Implore me to find you.
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Sweet lady, can you hear them?
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I swear, I’m ecstatically happy
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Remembering your eyes
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And whispering your name!
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30 Jul 10


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ah lovely poem. unpretentious and lovely. thanks. lovely.
 — unknown

i'd prefer the mustang to be yellow.
 — unknown

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