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Harry Chapin - Bummer Lyrics

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  • His mama was a midnight woman
  • His daddy was a drifter drummer
  • One night they put it together
  • Nine months later came the little black bummer
  • He was a laid back lump in the cradle
  • Chewing the paint chips that fell from the ceiling
  • Whenever he cried he got a fist in his face
  • So he learned not to show his feelings
  • He was a pig-tail puller in grammer school
  • Left back twice by the seventh grade
  • Sniffing glue in Junior High
  • And the first one in school to get laid
  • He was a weed-speed pusher at fifteen
  • He was mainlining skag a year later
  • He'd started pimping when they put him away
  • In jail he changed from a junkie to a hater
  • And just like the man from the precinct said:
  • "Put him away, you better kill him instead.
  • A bummer like that is better of dead
  • Someday they're gonna have to put a bullet in his head."
  • They threw him back on the street, he robbed an A

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