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Speedway At Nazareth
Mark Knopfler
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After two thousand came two thousand and one
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To be the new champions we were there for to run
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From springtime in Arizona �til the fall in monterey
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And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought�em all the way
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Was at Phoenix in the morning I had a wake-up call
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She went around without a warning put me in the wall
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I drove long beach California with three cracked vertebrae
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And we went on to Indianapolis, Indiana in the may
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Well the brickyard�s there to crucify anyone who will not learn
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I climbed a mountain to qualify I went flat through the turns
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But I was down in the might-have beens and an old pal good as died
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And I sat down in gasoline alley and I cried
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Well we were in at the kill again on the Milwaukee Mile
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And in June up in Michigan we were robbed at Bell Isle
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Then it was on to Portland, Oregon for the G I Joe
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And I�d blown off almost everyone when my motor let go
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New England, Ontario we died in the dirt
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Those walls from mid Ohio to Toronto they hurt
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So we came to road america where we burned up at the lake
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But at the speedway at Nazareth I made no mistake
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