Walking Song

Bacon fried, squinty eyed, moments of the dawn

Misty street calling me, get dressed and walk around

In the square, standing there girl so sad, what's the matter?

She said

Oh, oh dear sir the world has got me down

And folks preach happiness when there's none to be found

I type and answer phones to earn my meager pay

To keep me alive so I can waste another day

I sadly turned and walked away. For there was nothing I could say

Walking on, noonday sun dusty road to town

Saddened by the girl that I had chanced to come upon

Then I'd seen a limousine, a rich old guy, mean of eye

He said

"Oh bah hum bug you can't understand

The world is one big bank you must steal what you can

Because it's fools like you who waste their precious time by

Walking in the sun instead of trying to make a dime"

The words he spoke turned my world grey

Could everybody feel this way?

As if in answer down the road a lovely girl picked flowers of gold

She smiled sweetly and gave one to me

And said

Please kind sir don't look so down

For in this hard world love still abounds

And hand in hand friends of beauty can lie

On clover beds neath a blanket of sky