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DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET 
Live 31 May 1973 version
One, two, three, four
Well, hey bus driver, keep the change, bless your children, give 'em names
Don't trust men who walk with canes
Drink this and you'll grow wings on your feet
Broadway Mary, Joan Fontaine, advertiser on a downtown train
Christmas crier bustin' cane, she's in love again
Where dock worker's dreams mix with panther's schemes to someday own the rodeo
Tainted women in VistaVision perform for out-of-state kids at the late show
Mm
Wizard imps, uh, sweat sock pimps, interstellar mongrel nymphs
Well now, Rex said that lady left him limp
Oh, love is like that
Queen of Diamonds, Ace of a-Spades, newly discovered lovers of the Everglades
They take out a full page ad in the trades to announce their arrival
Oh, there, Danny!
La la la
Oh, oh, oh
[chuckles]
Clarence, play it!
Hey, hey!
And now Mary Lou, she found out how to cope, she rides to heaven on a gyroscope
The Daily News asked her for the dope
She said, "Man, the dope's that there's still hope"
Mm, Senorita, oh, Spanish rose, wipes her eyes and then blows her nose
Uptown in Harlem she throw a rose to some lucky young matador
Alright
La la la la, la la la la
Ooh, la la
Ooh, ooh, ooh, oh
Whoa
La la la, la la la, la la la la la la la
Whoa oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Mmm
Right here
Ah, alright
Page last updated: 08 Jan 2012
Info
The above lyrics are for the live 31 May 1973 radio performance of DOES THIS
BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET as broadcast on Richmond's WGOE-FM. The song was played in a full-band
acoustic arrangement.
The 31 May 1973 WGOE-FM Radio Performance
Bruce Springsteen's 31 May 1973 radio performance was broadcast live on
Richmond's WGOE-FM. The show took place at Alpha Sound Studios in Richmond, VA, and the radio
station broadcasted it via remote hook-up. While all his other radio shows were merely recorded
inside the DJ broadcast room, this was the only time that Springsteen ever played for a radio
broadcast from an actual recording studio. Besides the WGOE DJ, the small audience heard inside
the studio with the band includes Mike Appel, Jim Cretecos, and David Sancious who had yet to join
the band but was employed at the studio at the time.
Springsteen performed six songs on this radio show:
After the show, Mike Appel took possession of the master tape, so none of the
performance was ever re-broadcast by the station. The complete radio show was taped by a listener
and has since circulated among fans, but the sound quality is weak. A low generation copy of the
entire original master tape first surfaced in very limited hands in the early nineties. The
complete master tape in perfect sound quality finally emerged into the wider collector community
in early 2007.
Available Versions
List of available versions of DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET on this
website:
Credits / References
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake). Most of the above
info about this radio performance is taken from
Brucebase.
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