Hunger & Cold Lyrics - Phil Ochs

I've been all around your dirty old city 

Been all around your dirty old town [shades of ewan maccoll --.ed] 

I've slept in your alleys, I've slept in your subways 

Hunger and cold, they follow me down 

Chorus: 

Hunger and cold, hunger and cold 

I wouldn't mind but I'm growing so old 

But as low as I am, you know I'm still a man 

And I wouldn't mind but I'm growing so old 

Only last year I was rolling in money 

Only last year the good times would roll 

Only last year my friends were so many 

But only last year was so long ago 

(chorus) 

It's all so easy to throw me in prison 

It's all so easy to just walk on by 

But it's not so easy to see a man hungry 

It's not so easy to look in his eye 

(chorus) 

Yes there's poison in my cheap rotten liquor 

There's poison in every old garbage can 

But the worst kind of poison 

Is in your own brain 

When you look at me and forget I'm a man.