
Date of issue: 31.08.2006
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
Cardboard Avenue |
Well, thank you for the drink my friend, that’s alright with me |
Let’s drink to the workingman, wherever he might be |
Remember what he stood up for and the struggles he went through |
Then let us take a little stroll down Cardboard Avenue |
Down on the street where I live, when evening comes around |
No T.V. or radio, never hear a lonesome sound |
Except some poor Joe cryin', Lord, can I make it up to you? |
But he never gets an answer down on Cardboard Avenue |
Well here’s my little heartbreak hotel, now don’t you be let down |
When the ghost of Hobo Bill comes a-shufflin' around |
He might pause by your side, saying, Buddy, can you spare a dime or two? |
Then he’ll just drift off into the night on Cardboard Avenue |
Now, I hear the whistle blowing now, must be the Red Ball train |
We’ll see you in the North Country, when the springtime comes again |
Just ask any workingman, wherever you might be |
The whereabouts of Reverend Tom, Lefty Mouse, and Buddy |
And if he asks you, Were you in the fight, did you join the strike of 1932? |
Just tell him that you knew us down on Cardboard Avenue |
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