They're lining up. To mad dog your tilta whirl. 3 shots for a dollar. Win a real live doll. All the lies that you tell. I believed them so well. Take them back.
I come in on a night train. With an arm full of box cars. On the wings of a magpie. Cross a hooligan night. I busted up a chifforobe. Way out by the cocomo.
I come in on a night train. With an arm full of box cars. On the wings of a magpie. Cross a hooligan night. I busted up a chifforobe. Way out by the cocomo.
I've grown up here now. All of my life. But I dreamed. Someday I'd go. Where blue eyed girls. And red guitars and. Naked rivers flow. . I'm not all I thought I'd be.
Well when you ain't got nobody, anybody looks nice. Don't take much to make you stop and look twice. And it's either feast or famine, I've found out that it's true.
What's he building in there?. What the hell is he building. In there?. He has subscriptions to those. Magazines... He never. Waves when he goes by. He's hiding something from.
----I u.. . You can hang me in a bottle like a cat. Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat. Where the wailing of a baby. Meets the footsteps of the dead.
(Weill/Brecht). . You gentlemen who think you have a mission. To purge us of the seven deadly sins. Should first sort out the basic food position. Then start your preaching, that's where it begins.
When you walk through the garden. you gotta watch your back. well I beg your pardon. walk the straight and narrow track. . If you walk with Jesus. he's gonna save your soul.
warm beer and cold women, I just don't fit in. every joint I stumbled into tonight. that's just how it's been. all these double knit strangers with. gin and vermouth and recycled stories.
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you. And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress. Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair.
He's got himself a homemade special. You know his glass is full of sand. And it fells just like a jaybird. The way it fits into his hand. He rolled a blade up in his trick towel.
Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain. With a little drop of poison in the red, red blood. She need a way to turn around the bend. She said, "I want to walk away and start over again".
Well, I'm walking on down Virginia Avenue. Trying to find somebody to tell my troubles to.. Harold's club is closing, and everybody's going on home:. What's a poor boy to do?.
Well, I'm walking on down Virginia Avenue. Trying to find somebody to tell my troubles to. Harold's club is closing and everybody's going on home. What's a poor boy to do?.
Well time is always money for the boys on Union Square. Go on and bust your ass 'til doomsday, don't forget to say your prayers. Someone's riding down the backstreet, said papa got a brand new slack.
Well I pulled on trouble's braids. and I hid in the briars. out by the quick mud. stayin' away from the main roads. passin' out wolf tickets. downwind from the blood hounds.
Rattle big black bones. in the danger zone. there's a rumblin' groan. down below. there's a big dark town. it's a place i've found. there's a world going on.
Long way going to. Get my medicine. Sky's the autumn grey of a lonely wren. . Piano from a window played. Gone tomorrow, gone yesterday. . I found it in the street.
Well I broke down in East St. Louis. On the Kansas City line. I drunk up all my money. That I borrowed every time. And I fell down at the derby. the night's black as a crow.