Oscar's Christmas Lament
Well I dream about a warm pisspot in the morning
And Christmas dinner, a can of oily sardines
A warm Brooklyn beer in the switching yard
To wash down a pack of stale saltines
And I'm waiting on a train
Going to leave my troubles behind
Head out west to California
Where they say the sun shine all the time
Little boys grow up to be old hobos
They drink and ramble until they're toothless and gray
Sit around shivering between boxcars
Playing gin rummy on a cold Christmas Day.
And I'm waiting on a train
Going to leave my troubles behind
Head out west to California
Where they say the sun shine all the time
Well I miss my mama & my daddy
And I miss my little brother Willie too
He hung himself in the old smokehouse
Over a girl that he hardly knew
And Christmas dinner, a can of oily sardines
A warm Brooklyn beer in the switching yard
To wash down a pack of stale saltines
And I'm waiting on a train
Going to leave my troubles behind
Head out west to California
Where they say the sun shine all the time
Little boys grow up to be old hobos
They drink and ramble until they're toothless and gray
Sit around shivering between boxcars
Playing gin rummy on a cold Christmas Day.
And I'm waiting on a train
Going to leave my troubles behind
Head out west to California
Where they say the sun shine all the time
Well I miss my mama & my daddy
And I miss my little brother Willie too
He hung himself in the old smokehouse
Over a girl that he hardly knew
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Sawrey
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.