the ghost of her floats over there and the smile the smile it seemed so lonely she gave me her hand as they struck up the band and she seemed to say she seemed to say you re the only and we danced like two snowflakes in the falling wind in the wind and do me a favor god won t you let marlene come in the gymnasium floor the brass bound door the jungle bird the jungle bird that you showed me her love was so clean to tell the truth marlene the sound of your tambourine still haunts me we were so young then now that i m old i know oh i know i loved you right then i would have made marlene let go my friends in the bars hell they only see the scars and they do not give a damn they do not give a damn that i loved you i don t know why but once you ve seen the sky you think you know all birds are lovely but there s snow on the ground in woodstock tonight it s 22 years dear since i saw the light the world it explodes as such a high powered load to run to run to run was all they left me up here theres breeze high in the clouds we re free to fly to fly away was the lesson and though the fire had burned her life out it left me little more i am a crippled singer and it evens up the score the ghost of her floats over there and the smile the smile it seems seems so lonely she gave me her hand as i struck up the band and she seemed to say she seemed to say you re the only and there we danced like two snowflakes in the falling wind in the wind and do me a favor god won t you let marlene come in do me a favor god won t you let marlene come in1