#3573

Release: July 1, 1985

Lyrics:

There was heat in the air

And cops everywhere you looked

There wasn't a lot

So the breaks that you've got, you know you took

And I remember wonderin' where you've been

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie fell from grace

There was amazement on his face

On the night that Eddie failed

Sanity prevailed

It was June or July

When the heat from above beat down

It was famine or drought

When the brothers went out of style uptown

And we was mixin' Vicks with lemon gin

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie made front-page

His revolution came of age

He wrote surrender on the wall

The night he took the fall

I heard someone say, "He's trying to fly"

Like Eddie used to say, "We'll do when we die"

I know someone turned you for a spin

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie fell from grace

There was amazement on his face

On the night that Eddie failed

Sanity prevailed

Songwriter:

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on that radio

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

David Palmer / Chuck Cochran

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