1950 Shriner's Parade
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1950 Shriners Parade
Main Street runs from north to south Center Street runs east to west Carnegie library 3 blocks down from the house of the woman that I love best
And lining the streets in each direction to the vanishing point at the edge of town halfway through the American Century We the People gather 'round
where Main Street runs from north to south Center Street runs east to west Carnegie library 3 blocks down from the house of the woman that I love best
Main Street runs from south to north Center Street runs west to east City Hall over at Maple and 4th Right down the way from the Chief of Police
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Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a foursquare nation With the cardinal points and the section lines A sketch of a world on a drafting table The vectors of The Enlightened Mind
But the compass pulls in declination And the map thins out over points unknown In a thousand years, with the poles' precession Another crack’s gonna show in the cornerstone
So we took to the land with sharp protractors An eighth in a quarter, a quarter in a half Longitude lays out parallel fences X by Y on the heartland graph
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A solar eclipse at twelve o'clock noon And face-down flat in the vertical shade There's a dollar bill lying in the middle of the intersection On the 4th of July at the Shriners parade
Crescent moon, the eye in the pyramid The secret signs of the Masons' trade In their astrologer hats, on their miniature motorcycles The Founding Fathers celebrate
how Main Street runs from north to south Center Street runs east to west Carnegie library 3 blocks down From the house of the woman I still love best
Main Street runs from south to north Center Street runs east to west
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