There's a kid out on my corner hear him strumming like a Shivering in his dungarees but still he's to school His cheeks are made of peach fuzz, his hopes may be the But he's signed up as a soldier out to play the game
There are fake on his jacket He's used bleach to fade his With a brand new pressed shirt And some creased and wrinkled His a blemish garden but his eyes are virgin clear His voice is Chicken Little's, but hearing Paul Revere
When he catches giggling He forces up a he'd rather have a milk shake He keeps down the beer another folkie, late in coming down the pike Riding his guitar, he left Kid brother his bike
And got Guthrie running in his bones He's the hobo kid who's left his And his Beatles and the Rolling Stones boy is staying acoustic
There's singing in his heart He hopes his will somehow start To heal the cracks split apart gone plastic
And now there's Dylan from his mouth He's hitching himself way south To a little black and blues From old street men who paid their 'Cause they knew they had to lose They knew it, so just got to it
With old Gibsons and red clay shoes Playing 1 4 5 chords like good And cursed with skin calls for blood They put their face and in mud But oh, they learned the from way down there The ones learn it somewhere
Strum guitar, sing it kid Just about your feelings, not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had me But your youth is no handicap, it's what makes you
Hey kid, you you can hear your footsteps As you're kicking up the And the rustling in the tells you secrets you can trust The capturing of whispers is the way to a song It's when you get to microphones, the can go wrong
You can't see the audience spotlights in your eyes Your feet can't feel the highway from the Lear jet flies When you glide in silent splendor in padded limousines you are crying there behind the silver screen
Now you battle dragons, but they'll all into frogs When you grab the wheel of fortune, you get up in the cog
First your art turns into then the yahoos start to laugh Then you'll hear the jackals howl 'cause love to watch the fall They're the ones out there feeding On the and the bleeding They always are the to see the cracks upon the walls
When I this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet was set free Keats and too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me
Well just I had my birthday, I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not anymore got this problem with my aging, I no longer can ignore A and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar
And I can't being frightened on these midnight afternoons I ask the loaded questions "Why does come so soon?" And where are all the girls that I was singing for The daybreak of my dreams serenades no more
Yeah the man is going soft, the mirror's on the shelf when the truth's up there can you fool yourself? I am the aged jester who won't retire A clown without a net caught staggering on the high wire
Yesterday's a collar has settled round my waist Today keeps by me, it leaves no aftertaste Tomorrow is a daydream, the future's never Am I just a fire or a breeze passing through?
Hello my Country, I once to tell everyone your story Your passion was my And your past, my most potent Your promise was my Your my nightmare And problems fill my present Are we both somewhere?
right up young lady Your two hundred birthdays you old if not senile And we see the symptoms there in rigor mortise smile With your old folks eating dog and your children eating paint While the pirates own the flag and sell us sermons on
And blood's the only language That your deaf old ears can And still you will not answer with that message clear Does it mean no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the of your dream?
Oh B U Y Sell 'em pre-canned Perennial Sing happy ever
There's a band on the Titanic Singing my God to thee And the on the starboard bow Won't you with me
Yes I it in the New York Times That was on the stands It said dreams were out of fashion We'll hear no more promises There'll be no wasted passions To up our play
It was a good sign The words on to say It shows that we are up In oh, so many healthy And I told myself is exactly where I'm at But I don't much like about that
Harry, are you really so You can honestly That the country's better When all you do is let her Harry, can you really be When it's there before eyes When you hold the that carves her You live the life starves her to the bone
Good dreams don't come got to pay for them If you just dream you're asleep There is no way for them, to come alive, to
It's not enough to listen, not enough to see When the hurricane is coming on, not enough to flee It's not enough to be in love we hide behind word It's not to be alive, when your future's been deferred
What I've run through my body, what I've run through my My breath's the only and the tempo is my time My enemy is hopelessness, my honest doubt The answer is a that I never will find out
Is music propaganda, should I boogie, rock and Or just an warning system hitched up to my soul Am I observer or or huckster of belief too much of a life so mercifully brief?
So I stride down sunny streets and the plays back my song They're applauding at my shadow, after I am gone Should I hold this wistful that the journey is worthwhile Or tiptoe cross the chasm with a and a smile?
I got up this morning, I don't need to know no more It nightmares that had boiled the night before With every new dawning, my kid climbs in my bed And tells the of the board room your language is dead
And as I wander with my music the jungles of despair My kid will learn and find his street corner somewhere There he'll make the silence listen to the dream the voice And show his minstrel daddy that there only was one choice
Strum your guitar, it kid write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it had cursed me But your is no handicap, it's what makes you thirsty, hey kid
Strum guitar, sing it kid Just write about your not the things you never did
Dance on the Titanic Singing nearer my God to The on the starboard bow Won't you with me
The band on the Titanic Singing nearer my God to And the iceberg's on the bow Won't you dance me
Yeah the band on the Titanic nearer my God to thee And the on the starboard bow Won't you dance me
on Yeah the band on the Titanic Singing my God to thee And the on the starboard bow