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Pastimes : Deadheads

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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (22384)8/9/2000 3:04:27 PM
From: AugustWest  Read Replies (1) of 49843
 
Is it second set yet?


Wharf rat down
way down
down by the docks of the city,
Blind and dirty
asked me for a dime -
dime for a cup a coffee
I got no Dime but
I got time to hear his story:

My name is August West
and I love my Pearly Baker best
more than my wine
...more than my wine
more than my maker
though he's no friend of mine

Everyone said
I'd come to no good
I knew I would
Pearly believed them

Half of my life
I spent doing time for
some other fucker's crime
Other half found me stumbling around
drunk on burgundy wine

But I'll get back
on my feet someday
the good Lord willing
if he says I may
'cause I know the life I'm
living's no good
I'll get a new start
and live the life I should

I'll get up and fly away
I'll get up and
fly away...
...fly away

Pearly's been true
true to me, true to my dying day
he said
I said to him:
I'm sure she's been
I said to him:
I'm sure she's been true to you

I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown
nowhere to go
just to hang around
I got a girl
named Bonny Lee
I hope that girl's been true to me
I know she's been
I'm sure she's been
true to me
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