China Doll (Live at Fox Theater, Atlanta, May 19, 1977) lyrics

[Verse 1]
A pistol shot at 5 o'clock
The bells of heaven ring
All I leave behind me
Is only what I found

[Verse 2]
If you can abide
Let the hurdy-gurdy play
Stranger ones have come by here
Before they flew away

[Instrumental break]

I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you
But failing will not die

Take up your china doll
(Take up your china doll)
It's only fractured
Just a little nervous from the fall