Soap box preacher standing on a And all the people they gather round You speak of faith with a blaze of But those that fear, they wanna you down
Nobody where you live do you go in the naked night? All of the prophets, they before you They can your lonesome cry
When you're out 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 proud shoes, all over the sky Then he his hat just like Don Quixote And said, "Don't let the pass you by"
Heard a bugle in the misty morning What a haunting sound over Square Heard of the ghost of Street Looked out the door but no one was
Out in the cold Harlem I went for this minstrel man Played me a song to ease the With the Army Band
When out there on the dark all alone you're sleeping in the park at the end of the road
In those shoes, coming on up the alley In those shoes, walks all over the sky he tipped 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 cross of the wreckage and the rumble
In those proud shoes, coming on up the In those proud shoes, all over the sky Then he tipped his hat just like Don And said, "Don't let the rapture, don't let the rapture you by let it pass you by Ooh, don't let it you by"