Lyrics:
Well I met a man in Montgomery Alabama
I was waitin' on a bus and he was shinin' shoes and I heard him say
I'm a shoeshine man number one in
Well I met a man in Montgomery Alabama
I was waitin' on a bus he was shinin' shoes and I heard him say
I'm a shoeshine man number one in the land
'round till the next Joe sits down, a cuppa coffee and the Times
Gotta check the weather
He's the shoeshine man, airport Chicago
Next to the hot-pretzel
A flea shine shoeshine man of fifteen
Brings the house in with a smile
All twelve teeth tell myriad stories
One upon one and one
The breath in
another world
It's another place
It's a land I have yet to see
As I sit and still my fear
Whispers guide me
Back home
Shoeshine man
Shine my soul
So my life
I had a real slow shoeshine man
I said you don't pop that rag like some of 'em can
He looked at me and then he sat right back
It says in the farmer's
I'm the minstrel man, the cleaning man
The pole man, the shoeshine man
I'm a nigger man, watch me dance
I put the lyrics on the paper with
emptiness
Like sailors miss gangrene
La la la la la la
Shoeshine man
Horse - horsin' 'neath the
Lady city's whip
Shoeshine man
I'll give you a dime and
I'll
One for the shoeshine man
The balance is preserved by snails
Climbing the Santa Monica cliffs
The luck is walking down Western Avenue
And having
this time
And I'm throwing out my old shoeshine
Old Man, don't you leave me behind
road
I saw a shoeshine stand
A man was talking to a crowd
Holding slippers in his hands
Don't you know the same thing happens
Each and every day
from now
(Just move, just keep workin')
Shoeshine boy, I wanna know
Are you gonna be the richest man around
You've been a-workin' so hard
So many
on the corner there's old Sam, the shoe-shine man
Looks up from his Racing-Form, says Hi Cas, how you been?
I shake his hand for some familiar something I can
Swamp guinea
Junk man
Shoeshine boy
Elevator operator
Table cleaner at Horn & Hardart
Slave voodoo
Zombie
Ubangi lipped
Flat nose
Tap dancin'
Resident
pickin', swamp guinea, junk man, shoeshine boy
Elevator operator, table cleaner at Horn & Hardart
Slave voodoo zombie
Ubangi lipped, flat nose, tap
ten years from now?
(Just move, just keep workin')
(Shoeshine boy) I wanna know
Are you gonna be the richest man around?
You've been workin' so
ten years from now?
(Just move, just keep workin')
(Shoeshine boy) I wanna know
Are you gonna be the richest man around?
You've been workin' so
Have you ever passed the corner of Forth and Grand?
Where a little ball o' rhythm has a shoe-shine stand
People gather 'round and they clap their
Have you ever passed the corner of Forth and Grand?
Where a little ball o' rhythm has a shoe-shine stand
People gather 'round and they clap their
heart and a wicked mind)
It ain't easy living all alone (a good man and the devil's shoeshine)
Oh, I saw the dead come back to life (Allulah no anna see
fixin' man
Been on the road both day and night
I heard mama callin'
Heard my papa cry
I'm goin' back, back to the shoeshine stand
I'll be singin'
Talking 'bout me leaving America
You gotta be crazy, man, I like
All the nice thing, Jack
Colonial suits and things, look at here
Now I am
Talking 'bout me leaving America
You gotta be crazy, man, I like
All the nice thing, Jack
Colonial suits and things, look at here
Now I am sorry for
the beginning, the end, and the best of it
Well, do you need a lot of what you've got to survive?
Here's the man with teeth like god's shoeshine
He sparkles
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