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Red telephone sitting by my bed practically bore your name
Lying alone in the twilight zone waiting for your call to come in
Hadn't been for the kid who was sleeping upstairs
You'd have found me well on my way on that midnight plane to L.AYou suffered sweeter for me
Than anyone I've ever knownI dared to look into the years, would you still have your wife?
I dared to peer through my tears, could we ever have a life?
Even thought I was pregnant by you but I didn't care
I just talked to my son, would he mind another one?You suffered sweeter for me
Than anyone I've ever knownOnce more the mist rolls to the sea like a hundred times we've known
Trees are faded and the clouds have stopped where the wind had blown
How I dread when the evening comes and I cannot be
What you want me to be when you are next to meHow silent you are as the veils come down before my eyes
Soft and reserved as you move away donning your disguise
While every folk song that I ever knew once more comes true
And loves grows old and waxes coldYou suffered sweeter for me
Than anyone I've ever knownJust one favor of you, my love if I should die today
Take me down to where the hills meet the sea on a stormy day
Ride a ridge on a snow white horse and throw my ashes away

To the wind and the sand where my song beganYou suffered sweeter for me
Than anyone I've ever known

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Joan Baez, born on January 9th, 1941, is an American folk singer and a songwriter who is of mixed Mexican and Scottish descent. Baez rose to prominence in the early '60s with her stunning renditions of traditional balladry.

In the late '60s and early '70s, Baez came into her songwriting own, penning many songs (most notably "Diamonds & Rust," a nostalgic piece about her ill-fated romance with Bob Dylan, and "Sweet Sir Galahad," a song about sister Mimi Fariña's ( of Richard & Mimi Fariña fame) second marriage, and continued to meld her songcraft with topical issues. She was outspoken in her disapproval of the Vietnam war and later the CIA-backed coups in many Latin American countries.

She was also instrumental in the Civil Rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King on many occassions and being jailed for her beliefs. In 1963, her performance of "We Shall Overcome" at the Lincoln Memorial just prior to Dr. King's famous "I Have A Dream..." speech helped confirm the song as the Civil Rights anthem.

In December 1972, she traveled to Hanoi, North Vietnam, and was caught in that country's "Christmas Campaign," in which the U.S. bombed the city more times than any other during the entire war. While pregnant with her only son, Gabriel, she performed a handful of songs in the middle of the night on day one of the 1969 Woodstock festival. She is considered the "Queen of Folk" for being at the forefront of the 1960s folk revival and inspiring generations of female folksingers that followed. Over fifty years after she first began singing publicly in 1958, Joan Baez continues to tour, demonstrate in favor of human rights and nonviolence, and release albums for a world of devoted fans.

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