The Tricks

Don't you know Lily Mae?

Yeah, I know Lily Mae

One day they gonna find her froze to death standing in that door, you know!

What door?

Where she alway stand!

Is she still standing there?

Man, she done stood there so long she ain't nothing but bone, man

And it ain't doin' no good. You know what I told her?

What?

Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more

(What they gonna do? Crawl?)

No she got to get out and git them, man

Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more

Yes woman you gotta get out and get 'em

Or tricks ain't gonna walk no more

You know I used to have a little money, and I used to pass

All up and down that neighbourhood, you know

You know, one time I run into you down there, you know

But you never wondered where I saw you

Yes I had been cleaned - I had been cleaned already, you know

That's why I didn't talk to you about wanting you to go there

And get your dustbin out you know

Haha

Yes boy, it was a mess boy, you know

You know, she used to sit inside in the wintertime (yeah)

Sit right by the window glass, you know looking out

And when you pass by she'd knock on the glass like this, you know

And when you look - yeah! - she make two signs

You know what them signs were?

What was it?

Two and a half, man! Two and a half, yeah

And you know what I told her?

Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more

(She didn't believe me, though, you know, when I told her that)

Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more

(Not a bit!)

Yes if you don'