Duke, Duke, Duke,
Duke of Earl, Duke, Duke
Duke of Earl, Duke, Duke
Duke of Earl, Duke, Duke
(repeat)
As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop me now I'm the Duke Of Earl
You, you are my girl
**I love you, oh no(?)
Chorus:
Oh yes and I
Oh I love you, oh oh
So come on let me hold you darling
'Cause I am the Duke Of Earl
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
And when I hold you
You are my Duchess
My Duchess of Earl
We'll walk through my dukedom
Oh yes a paradise we will share
ChorusMe debunk an american myth?
And take my life in my hands?
Where the great plains begin,
at the hundredth meridian.
At the hundredth meridian,
where the great plains begin.
Driving down a corduroy road,
weeds standing shoulder high.
Ferris wheel is rusting off in the distance.
At the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin.
Left alone to get gigantic;
hard, huge and haunted
A generation so much dumber than it's parents came
crashing through the window.
A raven strains along the line of the road,
carrying muddy old skull.
The wires whistle their approval,
off down the distance.
At the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin
I remember, I remember Buffalo and I remember Hengelo
It would seem to me I remember every
single bloody, warm and horrible thing I know
If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me,
they bury me someplace I don't want to be,
you'll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniously,
away from the swollen city-breeze, garbage-bag trees,
whispers of disease and the acts of enormity
and lower me slowly, sadly and properly
Get Ry Coonder to sing my eulogy,
At the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin.