Escrita por Joan Baez, foi gravada em 1977 e lançada em junho de 1977 no disco Blowin' away, o décimo oitavo disco de Baez. Foi produzida por David Kershenbaum e Bernard Gelb. Essa canção foi escrita como um tributo aos gays. Baez cantou e tocou violão. Mike Botts e Rick Shlosser tocaram bateria. Duck Dunn e Wilton Felder tocaram baixo. Elliott Randall e Dean Parks tocaram guitarra. Larry Knechtel e Joe Sample tocaram teclado. Elliott Randall tocou também violão. Mike Botts tocou percussão. Jeff Baxter toou steel guitar e David Mansfield tocou violino, bandolim e steel guitar.
A letra:
At
night in the safety of shadows and numbers
Seeking some turf on
which nothing encumbers
The buying and selling of casual
looks
Stuff that gets printed in x-rated books
Your mother
might have tried to understand
When you were hardly your daddy's
little man
And you gave up saluting the chief
To find yourself
some relief
Finely plucked eyebrows and skin of
satin
Smiling seductive and endlessly Latin
Olympic body on
dancing feet
Perfume thickening the air like heat
A transient
star of gay bar fame
You quit your job and changed your name
And
you're nearly beyond belief
As you hunt down a little relief
The seven foot black with the emerald
ring
Broke up a fight without saying a thing
As the cops
cruised by wanting one more chance
To send Jimmy Baldwin back over
to France
And a trucker with kids and a wife
Prefers to spend
half of his life
In early Bohemian motif
Playing pool and
getting relief
My favorite couple was looking so
fine
Dancing in rhythm and laughing in rhyme
In the light of
the jukebox all yellow and blue
Holding each other as young lovers
do
To me they will always remain
Unshamed, untamed, and
unblamed
The altar boy and the thief
Grabbing themselves some
relief
The altar boy and the thief
Catching
a little relief
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