Birthplace of Jim Morrison - Childhood Home & Hospital In Melbourne Florida / The Doors History Tour
A visit to Melbourne Florida to check out the birthplace , neighborhood and childhood home of Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors .
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today's adventure brings us to the east
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coast of Florida and located just a few
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miles from the Atlantic Ocean is the
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town of Melbourne and since the beach is
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just a stone's throw away the murals are
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appropriate see the shoreline there and
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the waves to ensure no parking in these
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spaces file cabinet drawers have been
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placed as a deterrent not because of the
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painting but because of the tar here
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just a safety precaution
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who needs counts
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slightly overcast sons trying to peek
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through those clouds faintly you can see
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it up there
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little breezy which is nice the vision
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of the Harbor Guardian this piece of art
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represents the present the future and of
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course the past of this area which is
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what we're diving into so kind of a nice
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segue
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here this
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little community was the birthplace and
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first childhood home of doors lead
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singer Jim Morrison I'm gonna roam
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around show some of the spots and even
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see if I can find an O Maj to the man
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himself around the streets see what we
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can find time dividing you to join me
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shall you I always find it interesting
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that such iconic figures come from such
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small places trying to find his image in
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one way or another around but so far no
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such luck is however a nice little zebra
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pattern on that wall next to the
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construction
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started to get my hopes up when I saw
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this copy center there's Elvis and
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Marilyn but no no Jim
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on the opposite side Yoda and even
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Sherlock Holmes bus version right over
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there with his pipe maybe he can help
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connect the clues to Morris and history
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for at least a photo or painting or
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something a little backstory on how he
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originated in this area
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George Steven Morris and his father
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attended a flight Academy here for the
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Navy where he was trained closing its
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doors in 1946 the Naval Air Station is
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now a trailer park just about a mile or
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so away is a civilian airport that also
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occupies part of the property
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there were over 2,200 pilots trained on
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this premesis one of them being his pops
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one of the few remaining structures from
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that era still remains here on property
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is now used as the community center
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I just confirmed with a couple of the
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residents that this is the very last
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item from that time frame on property
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and they set down this very non
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illuminated hallway or some some old
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photos from back then take a look at
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that aerial view of the base a few of
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them
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a few Hellcats in formation and there
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was a band that took the same the same
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namesake completely hypothetical but I
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always have to wonder did he sit here
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and maybe share a stogie a smoke with
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his friends celebrating the arrival of
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his new son things that make you go
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everything is relatively close in
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proximity only about two miles or so to
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the hospital and just adjacent to it is
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the riders on the storm in which is a
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little motel
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quaint little place
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other than the sign out front not a
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whole lot of theming pertaining to the
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subject matter
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however nonetheless still happy to see
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some sort of acknowledgment a doctor's
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office in the background that's where it
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happens
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very unique architecture no way of
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knowing what room it took place not a
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lot of info other than if this was the
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only hospital in town in that timeframe
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and still used for the medical
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profession even all these years later
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just standard practice though I don't
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believe any babies have been born here
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in quite a while
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no plaque no statue no information any
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one of the vehicles the striving by in
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traffic should be flipping through the
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radio stations and hear a song by that
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band and have no idea that the frontman
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was delivered right here behind these
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walls they would never know
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except for this however which is
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directly next door so I guess they can
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kind of get they get the idea even
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though it's not precisely at the spot
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it's a few feet away
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the more I think about it maybe this
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facility didn't want to place a sign so
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that property owner did their thing one
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good way to gather information is to
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stop off at local libraries this one
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right there you can see there are some
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birds in the yard I'm gonna go inside
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see if I can just dig up some info down
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here the feather he left one of their
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feathers you can't always rely on the
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Internet so sometimes you have to turn
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to books this might be the only old
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school photo I've seen of that Hospital
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right there very distinct architecture
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still looks the same less trees current
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day than it was back here in this
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picture but that's it awesome here's
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another of them raising the flag 1944 at
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that Naval Air Station
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do you guys know the wealth of
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information that's inside that library
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stop in there sometime and learn about
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the area
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oh you're going in now the three of you
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you're all heading in to the Lord Eden
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alright see you just about a block or so
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from downtown is where his parents
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resided it's been remodeled since those
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days but this is it this is the house
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that are very young Jim Morrison and his
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mom and dad lived in a very prominent no
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trespassing sign has been placed on that
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palm tree good news is there are a
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multitude of photographs of him in the
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window so the people who live here
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definitely pay in their respects a
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couple more you can faintly see them one
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there on the left and then a poster
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frame poster a window on the right no
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distinct information other than that
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however just kind of have to know just
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kind of have to know
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mother Clara Clark holding him as a baby
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and what could have been that very yard
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he only lived here a few years before
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they moved later in life he probably
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never recollected or remembered or
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reminisce about this place it was too
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young before departing but he spent a
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good chunk of his beginning years here
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right inside that home pretty amazing to
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think about try to wrap your head around
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that lead singer of the doors this was
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the starting point
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dad I die they don't down down down and
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out and down down down down
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given that Seabreeze those nice little
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Gus
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come on then we up one of them is having
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trouble
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one of them is having trouble there you
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go there you go there you go up homo
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fatter
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cool gusty there you go
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picked up this free tourist guide called
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a discovery map that they provide
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general layout of the land burn in place
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this grass patch to the left of the
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three people walking upward towards
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downtown to those three trees to the
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left of them that's where the homestead
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is one reason or another it's not it's
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not promoted got a bluebird here though
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sipping on a little oj now looks pretty
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refreshing good mind having a glass of
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that
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stops off of the Chamber of Commerce the
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cab was a great idea why not head a few
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miles north to the Art District if any
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area will pay honor to their favorite
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son would be here right
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got some famous Lego faces here
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Ghostbusters others David Bowie down
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there and even the Beatles on the far
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end Willie Nelson and Jason Voorhees
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Michael Jackson the king this one here
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in the middle could that be maybe it's
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good to just kind of roam these
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alleyways
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you never know the nooks and crannies
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where he might be hiding this mermaid
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has discovered some fine pieces of of
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art under the sea
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priceless pieces
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she's got him submerged there under the
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water
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now that's the way to do it just
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relaxing just chill it here on the bench
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this one wraps all the way around give
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you the full perspective
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riders on the stone
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she was cumulonimbus off in the distance
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I was hoping you would be pouring to
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give the correct effect while singing
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that song pertaining to the subject
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matter starting to lighten up bass it's
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not cooperating
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really surprised that there was not more
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about Jim Morrison in Melbourne Florida
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the spot he was born where his life
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began
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and where he spent the first few years
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of his life in that homestead really
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nothing at all
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designating it
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