Muggsy The Lard

Lyrics

Muggsy the lard, was raised up hard In a school down by a river That flowed through the city Like a tide that flows up out of a sewer There was Turnip the toast, his girl by boast To his pack-rat friends that would gather In the dark to bleed in the dark to heed Adding comfort to one another Well Muggsy was a fitter, to a union hard-hitter And worked on a barge on that river And grew like a fruit grows, a peel, both hard, tough and bitter Stabbed in the back and sprawled in a cell More times than he could recall them And never heard those luxury words Bless us, Jessus loves all men Running in a pack and fighting in a bunch Hearing more times than not, scum take your lunch When a judge in a wig hat says here comes the crunch I'm putting my black cap on for you son, I'm putting my black cap on Well Muggsy had a mother and tenthousand other brothers Who all lived the same by the river An rose at that judge's words like the tide that flows up from the sewer Mob likes the name, with fists and with flames Adding blame on one another They'd never heard those luxury words Black brown and white could live together I said poetry brothers, we may not all be lovers Some of us have to live by the river Some of you will have brains, come of you'll be insane And some shall be bolder than others But, if you keep having dreams, of violence it seems You may've picked up a disease on your liver Give up your crutch, move out the hutch And make some room for another