Subterranean Homesick Blues - Take 1

Johnny's in the basement
 Mixing up the medicine
 I'm on the pavement
 Thinking about the government
 The man in the trench coat
 Badge out, laid off
 Says he's got a bad cough
 Wants to get it paid off
 Look out kid
 It's somethin' you did
 God knows when
 But you're doing it again
 You better duck down the alleyway
 Lookin' for a new friend
 The man in the coonskin cap, in the big pen
 Wants eleven dollar bills but you only got ten
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 Maggie comes fleet foot
 Face full of black soot
 Talkin' that the heat put
 Plants in the bed but
 The phone's tapped anyway
 Maggie says that many say
 They must bust in early May
 Orders from the D.A. look out kid
 Don't matter what you did
 Walk on your tip toes
 Don't try "No Doz"
 Better stay away from those
 That carry around a fire hose
 Keep a clean nose
 Watch the plain clothes
 You don't need a weather man
 To know which way the wind blows
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 Get sick, get well
 Hang around a ink well
 Ring bell, hard to tell
 If anything is goin' to sell
 Try hard, get barred
 Get back, write braille
 Get jailed, jump bail
 Join the army, if you fail
 Look out kid
 You're gonna get hit
 But losers, cheaters
 Six-time users
 Hang around the theaters
 Girl by the whirlpool
 Lookin' for a new fool
 Don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters
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 Ah get born, keep warm
 Short pants, romance, learn to dance
 Get dressed, get blessed
 Try to be a success
 Please her, please him, buy gifts
 Don't steal, don't lift
 Twenty years of schoolin'
 And they put you on the day shift
 Look out kid
 They keep it all hid
 Better jump down a manhole
 Light yourself a candle
 Don't wear sandals
 Try to avoid the scandals
 Don't want to be a bum
 You better chew gum
 The pump don't work
 'Cause the vandals took the handles