Burma-Shave Lyrics

Well, I broke down in East St. LouisThe Kansas City lineDrunk up all my money that I borrowed every timeAnd I fell down at the derbyThe night's as black as a crowIt was a train tha...Read Full Lyrics

Lay your head where my heart used to beHold the earth above meLay down on the green grassRemember when you loved meCome closer don't be shyStand beneath a rainy skyThe moon is over...Read Full Lyrics

Romeo is bleeding but not so as you'd noticeHe's over on 18th street as usualLooking so hatd against the hood of his carAns putting out a cigarette in his handAnd for all the pachu...Read Full Lyrics

Small change got rained on with his own thirty-eightAnd nobody flinched down by the arcadeAnd the marquees weren't weeping, they went stark-raving madAnd the cabbies were the only ...Read Full Lyrics

I love the wayThe tattered cloudsGo wind across the skyAs summer goesAnd leave meWith a tear in my eyeI'm taking out my winter clothesMy garden knows what's wrongThe petals of my f...Read Full Lyrics

Well, when I'm lyin' in my bed at nightI don't want to grow upNothin' ever seems to turn out rightI don't want to grow upHow do you move in a world of fogThat's always changing thi...Read Full Lyrics

Oh mother I want a dogI want a little dogI saw a little dogHis name is happyWell this is meDon't get close to me nowI could be a shopkeeperWe'll call 'emShe 'bout six foot fourNow ...Read Full Lyrics

I guess things were always quietAround Putnam CountyKind of shy and sleepy as it clung to the skirtsOf the 2-lane, that was stretched out like anAsphalt dance floor where all the o...Read Full Lyrics

Long way going toGet my medicineSky's the autumn grey of a lonely wrenPiano from a window playedGone tomorrow, gone yesterdayI found it in the streetAt first I did not seeLying at ...Read Full Lyrics

The sky holds all our wishesThe dish ran away with the spoonChimney smoke ties the roofs to the skyThere's a hole overheadIt's only the moonWill there ever be a treeGrown from the ...Read Full Lyrics