a thick cloud caught a piper clubs tail the match struck blue on a railroad rail the old puff horse was just pullin through and a man wore a peg leg forever i m on the bum where the hobos run the air breaks with filthy chatter oh i don t care there s no place there i don t think it matters my skin s blazin through and my clothes in tatters and the railroad looked like a y up the hill of ladders one shoe fell on the gravel one stick poked down gray of age fell down on a pair of ears an eagle shined through my hole watch pocket a gingham girl baby girl passed me by in tears a jack rabbit raised his folded ears a beautiful sagebrush jack rabbit and an oriole sang like an orange his breast full a worms and his tail clawed the evenin like a hammer  his wings took the air like a bomber and my rain can caught me a cup a water when i got into town odd jobs mam ah yer horse i ll fodder i m the round house man i once was yer father a little up the road a wooden candy stripe barber pole and above it read a sign painless parker lic licorice twisted around under a fly and a youngster cocked her eye god before me if i m not crazy is my daughter come little one with yer little dimpled fingers gimme one and i ll buy you a cherry phosphate take you down t the foamin brine and water and show you the wooden tits on the goddess with the pole out s full sail that tempted away yer peg legged father i was shanghaied by a high hat beaver mustache man and his pirate friend i woke up in vomit and beer in a banana bin and a soft lass with brown skin bore me seven babies with snappin black eyes and beautiful ebony skin and here it is i m with you my daughter thirty years away can make a seaman s eyes a round house man s eyes flow out water salt water