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Hunger And Cold

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Phil Ochs Canonical path: /phil-ochs/hunger-and-cold Related lyric paths: 6
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Hunger And Cold

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I've been all around your dirty old city

been all around your dirty old town [shades of ewan maccoll --.ed]

i've slept in your alleys, i've slept in your subways

hunger and cold, they follow me down

Chorus:

hunger and cold, hunger and cold

i wouldn't mind but i'm growing so old

but as low as i am, you know i'm still a man

and i wouldn't mind but i'm growing so old

only last year i was rolling in money

only last year the good times would roll

only last year my friends were so many

but only last year was so long ago

(Chorus)

it's all so easy to throw me in prison

it's all so easy to just walk on by

but it's not so easy to see a man hungry

it's not so easy to look in his eye

(Chorus)

yes there's poison in my cheap rotten liquor

there's poison in every old garbage can

but the worst kind of poison

is in your own brain

when you look at me and forget i'm a man.

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