Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues lyrics

When you're lost in the rain In Juarez and it's Easter time too And your gravity fails And negativity won't pull you through Don't put on any airs When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue They got some hungry women there And, man, they'll really make a mess outta you Now if you see Saint Annie Please tell her thanks a lot I cannot move My fingers are all in a knot I don't have the strength To get up and take another shot And my best friend, my doctor Won't even say what it is I've got Sweet Melinda The peasants call her the goddess of gloom She speaks good English And she invites you up into her room And you're so kind and careful Not to go to her too soon And she takes your voice And leaves you howlin' at the moon Up on Housing Project Hill It's either fortune or fame You must pick up on one or the other Though neither of them are to be what they claim If you're lookin' to get silly You better go back to from where you came Because the cops don't need you And, man, they expect the same Now all the authorities They just stand around and boast How they blackmailed the Sergeant at Arms Into leavin' his post And pickin' up Angel Who just arrived here from the coast Who looked so fine at first But left lookin' just like a ghost I started out on Burgundy But soon hit the harder stuff Everybody said they'd stand behind me When the game got rough But the joke was on me There was nobody even there to call my bluff I'm goin' back to New York City I do believe I've had enough