General-Zod wrote:
Will Dockery wrote:
"Rag-Picker Joe" / Will Dockery & Henry Conley
https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery/song/26082646-rag-picker-joe--will-dockery-henry?0
Rag-Picker Joe written by Will Dockery & Henry Conley, trumpet by Riley
Yielding, clarinet & bass by Doug Conley, drums by John Phillips.
Rag-Picker Joe
On a stroll,
along a Southside dole.
To collect my thoughts
and learn what I used to know.
Ambling down the street
friend to all he meets
here comes Rag-Picker Joe:
"Hey hey man,
you got a pistol in your hand.
Don't go doing the things
we often talked about..."
Rag-Picker Joe,
it's our lives now don't you know?
It just ain't worth
doing all that time...
Sally Sue came back
took his Cadillac
her brothers jacked him up
and left him on the curb.
This is life in the city
we got our ways and our means.
Rag-Picker Joe...
He said:
"Man
I got the upper hand,
gonna win this war
come high water or ice."
Rag-Picker Joe
why did you go do
all those things you did?
Rag-Picker Joe
do do do do...
those things we talked about in jest.
That's the last I seen of old Joe
he got blown away by the tornado
an act of God but absolutely just.
Rag-Picker Joe
why did you go do
things we often talked about in jest?
Rag-Picker Joe
blown away by a tornado
sad case but what did we expect?
-Will Dockery
***
Quite good and jazzy...
Good morning, this poem is very loosely related to real events.
Test post for possible vandalism by trolls.
HTH and HAND.
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