The Shit Song Lyrics

So I started out on High Street had to travel into townLike some Orpheus descending through a turnstile undergroundFrom Brooklyn Heights into Manhattan which was where I had to beN...Read Full Lyrics

On my way Thursday from the Y I heard it in the carBob Edwards broke the news tonight yes he of NPRDriving through Montgomery I hung my head and criedThen visited Hank Williams gra...Read Full Lyrics

I've seen the family photosAnd the man's a mysteryDied in 1942 at the age of 43My grandmother was his widowAnd my father was his sonOh, but I know next to nothingOf the first Loudo...Read Full Lyrics

My grandmother was like no otherToo bad you didn't meet herEvery day at three she'd have G and TAt bridge you could not beat herChristmastime she'd end up cryingListening to Cheval...Read Full Lyrics

Up there over Wilshire the whirly-birds zoomAbove the El Rey, circling the Conga RoomThey turn on the lights, pull out the stoppersGet off the streets now, here come the choppersHe...Read Full Lyrics

I wish I was in Carrickfergus, only for nights in BallygrandI would swim over the deepest ocean, the deepest ocean for my love to findBut the sea is wide and I cannot swim over and...Read Full Lyrics

No use crying, talking to a stranger, Naming the sorrow you've seen Too many bad times, too many sad times Nobody knows what you mean [Chorus:] But if somehow you could pack up yo...Read Full Lyrics

See the boys out walkingThe boys they look so fineDressed up in green velvetTheir silver buckles shineSoon they'll be bleary-eyedUnder a keg of wineDown where the drunkards rollI s...Read Full Lyrics

Crossin' the highway late last nightHe should've looked left and he should've looked rightHe didn't see the station wagon carThe skunk got squashed and there you areYou got yourDea...Read Full Lyrics

Do we ever want to take the low road? Do we ever just want to say we're through? Do we want to lock the door and throw away the key? Do we? We do Do we want to just look on the da...Read Full Lyrics