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Introduction:
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Traffic on the ground, I sound
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Sexy on the corner, So-
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-licit you for cash, I'm an
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Outcast street performer, Dash
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Downtown when its crowded, grab a
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Rock star space, spin
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Out-of-tune pegs, sprinkle
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Sprinkle quarters in guitar case
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Mingle with females outside retail stores, use
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Cash inside my hat, buy you a cocktail pour
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Ponytails, dreadlocks,
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Beehives are all ears
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Streetwise artist mobile musician engineer
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Only
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Forty minutes of material strumming them again, a
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Bum dropped in a dime, some rich guy left a ten, I'd
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Melt under the summer sun so
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Sheltered in the breezeway
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Belting out my best ballad
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People pleading please play, the
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One you did at Parrilla's when you opened the open mic, I
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Liked that first original, replayed in dreams overnight, paid
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Sixteen in an hour, next per-
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-former wants my spot
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Got to leave my post give someone else a shot
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Busking on the street
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Hustling with a beat
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Busting out the jam of jams
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No one can compete
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Busking on the street
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Hustling with a beat
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Busting out the jam of jams
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No one can compete
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