First time I stood On a corner With a 6 String Yamaha and A Marine Band Hoerner Laying Down the Harmony And bending the Blues.
Playing Some Neil Young Blowing that Harp and Singing that Song, it was A Late March morning And my fingers were Numb
Cold drizzle kept me Company People stopped and listened Tossed some cash in my Case Headed off out of the Cold in Haste
I broke into the Rolling Stones "You Cant Always Get What you Want" I was just trying to get what I need... Some Awesome long Hairs tossed in bills Headed down to Taco Grande, got My Fill
Fat Bean Burrito, extra cheese and Onions Wrapping My fingers around a Paper Cup, The sweet Black Coffee warmed me up Nineteen Feels like the King of the World
That Guitar Led to warmer Days, with With Blushed cheeked Coeds Litin' a Jay Down on the Lakes edge, Ended up laid
Those Songs and the Guitar Fed me for 2 years And Much Later People would rush up And Say "Do you Still play" remembering the Harmonies Echoed, Between the Buildings And drifting up the street, I have no Idea Who
Ten Thousand Passed by in the rain and the sun But the song played on and never was Done Kinda like Alice"s Resturant, they waited To see if I remembered it all 20 minutes long.
Of all the Music, the one that paid the best Was Arlo's Song, Time to strike a Match And Light the ****....
I got By as a Street Musician for 2 years playing at Heated bus shelters in winter, Sometimes I think those were the best days of my life