Where Do People Go

Eeny-meeny gipsaleeny, ooh, ah, combaleeny
Ooh, mamacha cucaracha C.O.D
Engine, engine number nine
Going down Chicago line
If the rain falls off the track
Do you want your money back, yes or no?

Odds or even odds, or evens eeny-meeny, miney-mo
Catch a trigger by the toe
If he hollers let him go
Eeny-meeny, miney-mo

Tin marin de los pingue
Cucara macara ti tiere fue
Quantra matra tiene e gato
Uno, dos, tres y quatro

Where do people go, when they runaway?
Tell me where do they go?
And where do they stay if they stay?

Do they find themselves on television?
In the waiting room
Or the nearest train station, bus station, runaway house or community center
And turn on the screen and sit
Watching and waiting
I wonder for what

Where do people go, when they runaway?
Tell me where do they go?
And what do they say to each other?

Are they chickens together on 42 street?
Or seatmates together in boarding school in Massachusetts?
Or are they on line together at the abortion office?
At the community center
It's all the same when you're lonely

Where do people go, when they runaway?
Tell me where do they go?
And where do they stay if they stay?

Do they sit in movies all day, like sad, old men?
Do they go to the factories and work their asses off?
Do they go to political meetings and shout their problems out?
Do they leave home, and then go back home?
Mothers and fathers do that a lot
Do they go from relative to relative?
To foster home, to foster home
To theater groups to therapy
To jogging and long walks and long talks
And arguments and reconciliations
It's all the same when you're lonely

Where do people go, when they runaway?
Tell me where do they go?
And where do they stay if they stay?

Do they stay with anyone who'll take them?
Hopin' and waitin'
Hopin' and waitin'
Hopin' and waitin'
Esperando