EP#23 - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only a Po' Boy)

So bear with me, please.

I'm going to go through a number of these verses.

Man comes to the door.

I say, for whom are you looking? He says, your wife.

I say, she's busy in the kitchen cooking.

Poor boy, where you been? I already told you, I won't tell you again.

I say, how much you want for that? I go into the store.

The man says, three dollars.

All right, I say, will you take four? Poor boy, never say die.

Things will be all right by and by.

Othello told Desdemona, I'm cold.

Cover me with a blanket.

By the way, what happened to that poison wine? She says, I gave it to you.

You drank it.

Poor boy, laying them straight, picking up the cherries falling off the plate.

Time and love has branded me with its claws.

Had to go to Florida, dodging them Georgia laws.

Poor boy, sitting in the gloom, calls down the room service, says, send up a room.

And the last one.

Knocking on the door, I say, who is it and where are you from? Man says, Freddy.

I say, Freddy who? He says, Freddy or not, here I come.

Poor boy, neath the stars that shine, washing them dishes, feeding them swine.

there we are so that my the thing that you know it's i love this song uh me too but it really is it's funnier than it seems because it's hilarious you know it's a

brilliantly funny fantastic and it's one that almost passed me by a little bit i've always loved love and theft but poor boy was kind of like oh yeah poor boy it's good it's good thing towards the end of the album kind of gets you yeah but no it's it's brilliant Yeah, and it's so

unusual in every way.