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жанры: singer-songwriter, country, folk
альбомы: Diamonds in the Rough
Billy The Bum
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John Prine
жанры: singer-songwriter, country, folk
альбомы: Diamonds in the Rough
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Billy the bum lived by the thumb And sang of the hobos delight Hed prove he could run Twice as fast as the sun By losing his shadow at night Now he loved every girl In this curly headed world But no one will know it seems For two twisted legs and a childhood disease Left billy just a bum in his dreams Chorus: And he was just a gentle boy A real florescent light Cried pennies on sunday morning Laughs nickels on saturday night And your bullets they cant harm him Nor your knives tear him apart Humiliation killed him God bless his little heart Now he lived all alone In a run down home Near the side of the old railroad track Where the trains used to run Carrying freight by the ton And blow the whistle as billyd wave back But the children around billys home town Seemed to have nothin better to do Then run around his house With their tongues from their mouth And make fun of that cripped old fool (repeat chorus) Now some folks they wait And some folks they pray For jesus to rise up again But none of these folks In their holy cloaks Ever took billy on as a friend For pitys a crime And it aint worth a dime To a person whos really in need Just treat em the same As you would your own name Next time that your heart starts to bleed (repeat chorus)
Это интересно:Prine is the son of William Prine and Verna Hamm. Prine himself started playing guitar at age 14, taught by his brother, David. He was a postman for five years and served in the Army before beginning his musical career in Chicago.In the late 1960s, while Prine was still delivering mail in Maywood, Illinois, he began to sing at open-mic evenings at the Fifth Peg on Armitage Avenue. Prine was initially a spectator, reluctant to perform, but eventually did so in response to a "You think you can do better?" comment made to him by another performer. Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert heard him there and wrote the first review Prine ever received, calling him a great songwriter.... продолжение
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