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I'm Goin' To Hell

from Party At Old Scratchy's by Eli Elkus

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lyrics

Just 'cause I look like I might be the one
it don't make it likely
Just 'cause I look like God's shinin' son
that don't mean he like me
Can't give you hope, but man I'll bum ya a smoke
I ain't got the answers, but I'll give you cancer
So damn me for the life that I'm livin'...
if I'm goin' to hell I ain't got no fucks for givin'

Well if the lord only knew I'm celebratin' with strangers
He'd cut my hair and have me hanged from a manger
It's a hot damn scandal can ya damn a man for tryin'?
Ain't tryin' to say I ain't no saint I ain't lyin'
Go on and call me freak Jesus or your savior
I'm not
I'm just a long hair hippie peace freak who oughta get shot
Well I'm afraid it's more than just your opinion...
if I'm goin' to hell I ain't got no fucks for givin'

So bring me your dead
lord, you can gimme your kids
I'll be sure to treat 'em even
Just 'cause I look nice on the day you been reckoned
that don't mean my advice ain't worth checkin'
You can't repeal me from humanity with the lord's holy water
You can appeal to my insanity with a preacher man's daughter
Don't give a damn about your wife or your family
Don't give a damn about them people upstairs
So damn me for the life that I'm livin'...
if I'm goin' to hell I ain't got no fucks for givin'

Yeah I'm your woulda been coulda been shoulda been woulda been coulda been better
or better yet a shoulda been has been
but don't you forget
I'm your oughta been used to be
Shucks, I'm certainly somethin'
and sure as hell I couldn't have been nothin' worse
A tip of the hat kinda guy
A hand shake and a smile
Yeah, I'm the nicest guy on the block
'Til I'm not...
Don't give a damn about your wife or your family
Don't give a damn about that man upstairs
So damn me for the life that I'm livin'...
but I'm goin' to heaven I ain't got no fucks for givin'

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from Party At Old Scratchy's, released April 1, 2020

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Eli Elkus Northampton, Massachusetts

Eli Elkus is a traveling musical storyteller, songmaker, and folk activist. He began sculpting his craft as a young troubadour fishin' for songs by the riversides and busking in the streets. And so it went... The lazy-eyed dreamer and his familiar Bronco the hound wonder wander the US byways bringing folk music to the folks, freewheelin' in their road sweet home - 'JeBus'.
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