Little boy running and the little girl too Got the money tucked up in their hands Over the wall and down into the street Give your money to the hollering
One day the monkey jumps aboard, one day the black dog gets you One Day the demons write your name in blood upon a ledger But see the sun is shining
We used to say "There'd come the day we'd all be making songs Or finding better words" These ideas never lasted long The way is up along the road, the
I?m so tired of working every day, Now the weekend?s come I?m gonna throw my troubles away If you?ve got the cab fare, mister you?ll do all right I want
High up above the crowd The great Valerio is walking The rope seems hung from cloud to cloud And time stands still while he is walking His eye is steady
Well I wove the rope and I picked the spot Well I struck out my neck and I tightened the knot O stranger, stranger, I?m near out of time You stretch
Oh some girls hold the ace, the deuce, the trey X-ray the deck to see what's coming Mary Antoinette she smiled that way Easy to smile when the luck is
It seems like a lifetime since I saw you Lover lover I?ve been away too long When I see lovers holding hands and sighing I hang my head for shame of
By Devonside she was a-marching It was a gang of no great size And surrender was the banner that she carried And hungry was the shiver in her eyes She
Was there ever a winter so cold and so sad The river too weary to flood The storming wind cut through to my skin But she cut through to my blood I was
She was there one minute and then she was gone the next Lying in a pool of herself with a twisted neck Oh she fell from the roof to the ground There