WHITER SHADE OF PALE
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1. We
skipped a light fandango, and
turned cartwheels
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cross the floor, I was feeling kind of seasick,
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but the crowd called
out for more.
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The room was humming
harder, as the ceiling flew away,
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when we called out
for another drink,
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the
waiter brought a tray.
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And
so it was that later, as the miller told his tale,
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that her face at first just ghostly
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refrain)
turned a whiter shade of pale.
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2. She
said, there is no reason, and the
truth is plain to see,
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but
I wandered through my playing cards,
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and would not let her
be, one of sixteen vestal
virgins,
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who
were leaving for the coast.
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And although my eyes
were open,
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they
might just have well been closed.
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CHORUS +
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(Procul Harum)