In the Ghetto Lyrics

All the towers of ivory are crumblingAnd the swallows have sharpened their beaksThis is the time of our great undoingThis is the time that I'll come runningStraight to youFor I am ...Read Full Lyrics

Come sail your ships around meAnd burn your bridges downWe make a little history babyEvery time you come aroundCome loose your dogs upon meAnd let your hair hang downYou are a litt...Read Full Lyrics

I stepped out of the St. James hotelAnd I left you behind curled up like a childA change is gonna comeAnd as the door whispered shutI walked on down the high-windowed hallYou lay s...Read Full Lyrics

I had a dreamI had a dreamI had a dreamI had a dreamI had a dream, JoeI had a dream, JoeYou were standing in the middle of an open roadI had a dream, JoeYour hands were raised up t...Read Full Lyrics

The tree don't care what the little bird singsWe go down with the dew in the morning lightThe tree don't know what the little bird bringsWe go down with the dew in the morningAnd w...Read Full Lyrics

It was back in '32 when times were hardHe had a Colt forty-five and a deck of cardsStagger Lee He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hatHad a '28 Ford, had payments on thatSta...Read Full Lyrics

Past the ivy-covered windows of the angelDown Athenaeum Lane to the cathedralThrough the churchyard I wanderedSat for a spell there and I ponderedMy back to the gates My back to th...Read Full Lyrics

I lay down by the riverThe shadows moved across me, inch by inchAnd all that I heardWas the war between the water and the bridgeTurn to me (turn to me)Turn to me (turn to me)Turn t...Read Full Lyrics

I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did, I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youOh, not to touch a hair on ...Read Full Lyrics

Well the night was deep and the night was darkAnd I was at the old dance-hall on the edge of townSome big ceremony was going downDancers writhed and squirmed and then,Came apart an...Read Full Lyrics