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