Soap box preacher on a corner And all the people they would gather You of faith with a blaze of glory But those that fear, wanna knock you down
Nobody knows where you Where do you go in the naked All of the prophets, they before you They can your lonesome cry
When you're out there in the night all When you're in the light at the end of the road
In those proud shoes, coming on up the In those proud shoes, walks all the sky Then he tipped his hat just Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the pass you by"
Heard a blowing in the misty morning What a haunting sound Times Square of the ghost of 52nd Street Looked out the door but no one was
Out in the cold Harlem I went for this minstrel man me a song to ease the pain With the Salvation Army
When you're out there on the dark all When you're sleeping in the park at the end of the
In those shoes, coming on up the alley In those shoes, walks all over the sky Then he tipped his hat just like Don And said, "Don't let the pass you by"
In the neon and the asphalt jungle He carries his cross of Through the wreckage and the
In proud shoes, coming on up the alley In those proud shoes, all over the sky Then he tipped his hat like Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the rapture, don't let the pass you by Don't let it you by Ooh, let it pass you by"