Po' Girl - Content

Got a little song, won't take long
Sing it right once or twice
Oh lordy me didn't I shake sugaree?
Everything I got's gone in pawn
Pawned my watch, pawned my chain
Pawned everything that I had to my name
Oh lordy me.....
I pawned my clarinet, pawned my old bed
Ain't got no place to lay my head
Oh lordy me....
I got a secret I ain't gonna tell
I'm going to heaven in a ground pea shell
Oh lordy me
I chew my tobacco, spit my juice
I would raise cain but it ain't a bit of use
Oh lordy me.....
Nothing to show, nothing to hold
If tears were riches i'd have bars of gold
Oh lordy me that old pawnbroker cheated me
And everything I got's gone in pawn

A baby was born in a house of addiction
They call it the rising sun, but the tenant's suns are setting
He took his first breath in the hands of a whore
She knew just what to do, though she'd never delivered before
And he screamed, and he cried, sucked his mother's opium breast
He's got a long fight ahead, but so have all of us
A baby was born on a bad luck day
His life gave us hope, maybe our luck will change
Some deign to despise, those it comforts to condemn
And say "they chose their sickness, look how they've harmed him
They're not our kind, they been dehumanized
Don't even feel a thing, they should all be sterilized"
But a baby was born who can say that he's doomed?
When the cherished ones kill and the battered ones heal
A baby was born on a bad luck day
His life gave us hope maybe our luck will change.

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Crows are roostin' in the old pear tree, rain's coming down like tears
I'm sitting here drinking whiskey, thinking back on all the years
I've been kicking around this town, trying to turn my life around
Hotel rooms and stardust blues and the rain all my pain mixed with fear
ch: Talkin' bout a city, nights are lonely and cold
A town with no pity, don't it make you feel so alone?
Walking down to china town, cops all around and a man on the ground
It's just another day , another game to play in this city of pain
He's just another victim, another lost soul, another statistic to add to the death toll
Another high, another low, another goodbye, another hello
ch
Talked to the man by the shanty town he said "what goes up surely must come down"
Down here with the rats and the crows, down among the littlest hoboes
Maybe one day i'll get out of here, go where the sky is blue and clear
But it'll be a long goodbye, when I leave this town of seagull's cries
ch

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Walking aimlessly through these city streets,the rain's keeping a deaf man's beat
I just can't seem to get to sleep tonight, keep thinking of the world's plight
I'm walking through the water hoping it'll wash away my blight
Of living on bleak streets, living on bleak streets
Life lies heavy on the woman laying in the street,she's filling her veins with a poison sweet
She's got abcesses deeper than the water soaking my feet tonight,
She's thinking of the world's plight
Eyes sunk back into her skull, she's almost shed her mortal shell,
I'm singing to myself to hide my pain, when she lifts up her head, lends her voice to my refrain
Living on bleak streets, living on bleak streets, you'd best not greet the people that you meet
'Cause it's easy to walk by embrace hypocrisy and lies but it's hard to forget -she'll haunt you yet......

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Unfettered, undelivered, trapped inside this skin soul shivered
And all night I tossed and thought about you
Running through, sky blue, turning in and back to you
A victim of this harmless abandon
Just blame the whiskey and the wine
Blame on this shameless heart of mine
Under this gypsy moon, saffron and kisses bloom
I stumbled, I lost and then I found you
Tropical starry skies, that's what I would really like
To be there with you in the garden
Just blame the whiskey and the wine
Blame on this shameless heart of mine
Just blame the wiskey and the wine
Blame on this untamed heart of mine

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It's been one of those days, nothing seems right
I slept through the sun, now I'm staying up all night
I'm leaky-eyed, and dissatisfied with myself
And my thoughts and my life
ch: I wanna jump right out of my skin,
I wanna jump right out, out of my skin
I don't know where I'm goin', don't like where I've been
I wanna jump right out , out of my skin
Is this melancholly mood an epiphany?
Or just renegade chemicals, unbalancing me
I'm so uninspired, makes me tired and i'd sleep
But my dreams don't bring me relief
ch
I went down to a club, the band was a joke
Recycled nashville, imitation cowpokes
If they're musicians, I'm a magician
But they've got an album, the audience loved them
ch
I try to tell myself , I'll grow out of this
It's just a passing youthfull fit
But I've got this intuition, a sneaking suspicion
Periodic malaise it's a human condition, it's a human condition
ch

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ch
I cooked all night, I cooked all day,
Driving the cold hungry blues away
Mmmm-mm, I got em on the run
Weaving a weary melody of everyday humdrum
As the night draws in the shadows grow long
My mind's released my fancy's freed
My senses revel in the cycle of the song
ch
It's all been done, but we do it again
Building a dream bridge on an ancient foundation
There's beauty in the resonance, truth in repetition
We are what's come before, we are what will be, right now we do
ch
A night wind's wuthering, ice licks the ground
I've got salt stains on my boots from the long walk downtown
The music of the motion lulls my winter jaded soul
And the seventh veil drops, the spiral spins whole
And I know, I know the beauty in the resonance
I know the truth in repetition, we are what's come before
And we are what will be and right now, right now we do
I cooked all night , I cooked all day
And I drove those cold hungry blues away
But they'll be back again, they'll be back again
Amen, amen
ch

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I took the backstairs down, I landed on the ground
And I stumbled, I didn't fall
You were calling out for me, I was crawling on my hands and feet
And I'm still not going back at all
I took a walk around that old jailhouse busted down
And the heat was to much to take
You were sittin' in the shade, I was sippin' scotch and lemonade
And i've still had all that I can take
My socks are worn and thin, my shoes got rocks in 'em
And i've had too much to drink
If there's one thing that I need, it's to find a place where I can breathe
And a little time just to think
And a little time just to think
I took the backstairs down, I landed on the ground
And I stumbled, I didn't fall
You were calling out for me , I was crawling on my hands and feet
And I'm still not going back at all

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Abilene, abilene, prettiest town that I ever seen
Women there don't treat you mean in abilene (my abilene)
I sit alone most every night,
Watching the trains rolling out of sight
I wish that they were carrying me to abilene
Vrowded city nothing's for free,
Ain't nothing in this crowd for me
I wish to god that I could be in abilene
Redlight flickering on a subway train
New york city in the drizzling rain
It'll do til I get to abilene
ch

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There's a black sun on the rise, there's a shadow in this place
There's cool light of dawn, wheels are taking me away
Where's the sun when you're needing the light ,where's the moon's saving grace?
And the day falls soft into night, wheels are taking me away
Wheels are taking me away
And there's a heat wave rising over this paved road I walk in these boots
And there's a north star guiding and wheels are taking me away
Wheels are taking me away, wheels are taking me away
Time moves by so fast and slow, like the tide rising high and low
There's a home that you know, wheels are taking me away
Wheels are taking me away, wheels are taking me away

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You know my man beats me, hits me everyday
You know my man's a low down dog, but I love him anyway
ch: He's my kickin' kissin' man, I'm his black and blue lady
He may starve my affection, but he feeds my heroin addiction
He goes out drinkin' every night and don't come home til three
When he does he's drunk and mean, falls asleep on top of me
ch
We brings his other women home, treats me like a whore
Weren't for the babies swear to god I'd walk right out that door
ch
I went to the doctor, doctor said tell me all your woes
When I did she said leave that dog, get on methadone
He might be a kickin' kissin' so-called man, but he ain't got the right to black and blue you lady
He ain't capable of affection, and he's kiling you with a heroin addiction
So I took my kids, I burned his clothes, took his old machete knife
I moved in with that doctor, loving her has saved my life
She's my caring kissing woman, I'm her black and blessed lady
She gives me all the affection and she can fill my methadone perscription
(old spiritual)
You gotta sing when the spirit says sing, you gotta sing when the spirit says sing
When the spirit says sing you gotta sing right along, you gotta sing when the spirit say sing
You gotta laugh...
You gotta cry...
You gotta leave...
You gotta live...
You gotta die....
You gotta dance....
You gotta sing when the spirit says sing

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Sleep child, sweet child, no more shall you weep child
Sweet child, sleep child, no more shall you cry
There's no sorrow, toil and care save for the morrow
There's no harm can hold you while I'm by
Greet your dreams child, savour them in peace while
You can, sweet child, the world is dark and wild
I will keep you close and closer, sleep you
Darling baby i'll guard you with my life
Sleep child, sweet child, no more shall you weep child
Sweet child, sleep child, no more shall you cry

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