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I still ask myself if I did the right
thing, when I abandoned this floating city.

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And I don't mean only for the work.

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The fact is,
a friend like that,

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a real friend,

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you won't meet one again

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if you just decide to
hang up your sea legs,

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if you just want to feel
something more solid beneath your feet

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and then you no longer hear
the music of the Gods around you.

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But, like he used to say:

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"You're never really done for
as long as you've got a good story"

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"and someone to tell it to."

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The trouble is, nobody would
believe a single word of my story.

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It happened every time that
someone would look up and see her.

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It's difficult to understand.

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What I am saying is, there'd be more
than a thousand of us on that ship,

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traveling rich folk,
immigrants,

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and strange people and us.

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Yet, there was always one,
one guy alone,

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who could see her first.

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Maybe he was just
sitting there eating

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or walking on the deck.

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Maybe he was just
fixing his pants.

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And for a couple of seconds,
a quick glance out to sea

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and he'd see her.

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Then he'd just stand there,
rooted to the spot, his heart racing.

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And every time,
every damned time, I swear,

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he'd turn to us, towards the ship,
towards everybody and scream...

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America!

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And I lost big money betting on
who'd be the first guy to see her,

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America.

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<i>- TНE LEGEND OF 1900 -</i>

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It's a miracle! Santa Rosalia!

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What do you mean Santa Rosalia?
It's the Madonna of Lourdes!

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New York!

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The one who sees America first...
There's one on every ship.

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And don't be thinking it's an accident
or some optical illusion.

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It's destiny.

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Those are people who always had that
precise instant stamped on their life.

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And when they were kids,
you could look into their eyes

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and if you looked carefully enough,
you'd already see her,

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America.

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And I've seen a few Americas!

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Six years on that ship,
five crossings a year:

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Europe, America and back.
Always soaking in the ocean!

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When you stepped on land, you couldn't
even piss straight in the john.

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It was steady,
the john I mean,

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but you'd keep bobbing
like an idiot.

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Oh, you can get off a ship all right,
but off the ocean...

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I was just closing.
What can I do for you?

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When I boarded
I was 24 years old,

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and I only cared about one thing
in life: playing the trumpet.

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I'm selling it.

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A Conn.

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Not bad.

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Best brass money can buy!

