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Bread Line Blues (Live) - Jorma Kaukonen

Well the latest news

Has struck me funny and

Says you have no friends

If you haven't got money

And all of us

Good folks are in distress

But I'm gonna get something off my chest

1932 won't be long

And when you place your vote

Please don't vote wrong

Vote away those blues

Those breadline blues

It's the rich man's job

To make some rules

In order to rid

Our breadline blues

Now listen here folks

And it ain't no joke

We've got to do something

Or we're all gonna croak

We can't get a job

We've all been robbed

We've got no money

And the corn's all cobbed

We've nothing but the blues

The breadline blues

If we had state rights

I leave it to you

We could all have safe and better home brew

Said the long earred mule

Standing over the box

To the big mouthed elephant

You drink like an ox

You had eight years

Proved nothin' but a curse

Instead of making it better

Gettin' worse and worse

Said the long earred mule

I ain't no fool

The elephant said

To the long earred mule

Well shut your mouth

You've never been to school

Well the mule said

Elephant it ain't no joke

We better do something

Or we're all gonna croak

We're struggling to keep our head

Above water

But we're drowning in debt

From the government order

It's the same old blues

Those breadline blues

The latest news

Has struck me funny

Says you have no friends

If you haven't got money

And all of us

Good folks are in distress

But I'm gonna get something off my chest

2008 won't be long

And when you place your vote

Please don't vote wrong

Vote away those blues

Those breadline blues