[Verse 1] A thick cloud caught a piper cubs tail The match struck blue on a railroad rail The old puff horse was just pullin through And a man wore a peg leg forever [Verse 2] Im on the bum where the hobos run The air breaks with filthy chatter Oh, I dont care theres no place there I dont think it matters [Verse 3] My skins blazin through And my clothes in tatters And the railroad looked Like a Y up the hill of ladders [Verse 4] One shoe fell on the gravel One stick poked down Gray of age fell down On a pair of ears [Verse 5] An eagle shined through my hole watch pocket A gingham girl, baby girl Passed me by in tears A jack rabbit raised his folded ears [Verse 6] A beautiful sagebrush, jack rabbit And an oriole sang like an orange His breast full a worms And his tail clawed the evenin like a hammer [Verse 7] His wings took the air like a bomber And my rain can caught me a cup a water When I got into town Odd jobs mam, ah, yer horse, Ill fodder [Verse 8] Im the round house man I once was yer father A little up the road a wooden candy stripe barber pole And above it read a sign, Painless Parker [Verse 9] Liclicorice twisted around under a fly And a youngster cocked her eye God, before me if Im not crazy Is my daughter [Verse 10] Come little one With yer little dimpled fingers Gimme one And Ill buy you a cherry phosphate [Verse 11] Take you down t the foamin brine and water And show you the wooden tits On the Goddess with the pole out sfull sail That tempted away yer peg legged father [Verse 12] I was shanghaied By a high hat beaver mustache man And his pirate friend I woke up in vomit and beer in a banana bin And a soft lass with brown skin Bore me seven babies with snappin black eyes And beautiful ebony skin And here it is Im with you my daughter Thirty years away can make a seamans eyes A round house mans eyes flow out water, salt water
yer, peg, water, railroad, rabbit