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Old Wild World

from Party At Old Scratchy's by Eli Elkus

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A sultry summer night drips from an ice cream cone
a stampede of stilettos crawls across the cobble stone
it leaves a slew of chocolate moose and broken ankle bones
leadin' all the boys back home

And every gal in this town wears a corset
why any man on a corner's smokin' cigarettes
and everybody wants to be 'em see 'em laughin 'til they cry
ain't nobody knows goddamn why
ain't no coinkidink not neither do I

In my mind there's been a jailbreak
where all the wicked and the damned they come runnin' for the gates
I think I'd rather watch a guilty man walk...
than leave a decent man in a cage

Think it's time a good fella catch a break
you know, he's been short changed since his court date
That fella bought an umbrella
hella, someone musta telled ya....
in that old wild world it gonna rain
and on that old wild world it gonna reign

Kind of Blue's on cassette in a corvette
rollin' slow courtin' silhouettes sippin' rosette
and every sad old white man's got a dirty old mind
ain't nobody knows goddamn why
in the wrong place at all the wrong times

He wants to take you for a ride on a sex drive
why every lass out after sunset's in a cold sweat
I'm afraid that it's so, you've died more times than you know...
at least you wound up here

In my mind there's been a jailbreak
where all the wicked and the damned they come runnin' for the gates
I think I'd rather watch a guilty man walk...
than leave a decent man in a cage

Think it's time a good fella catch a break
you know, he's been short changed since his court date
That fella bought an umbrella
hella, someone musta telled ya....
in that old wild world it gonna rain
and on that old wild world it gonna reign
yeah, in that old wild world it gonna rain
on that old wild world...
It gonna reign

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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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