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He was Hollerin’ Jesus on Nowhere Street
The madman shouted in the market place. No one stopped to answer him. Thus it was confirmed that his thesis was incontrovertible.
-Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 12.22.57
He was hollerin’ Jesus on Nowhere Street At the Corner of Life and Death, ‘way gone Where there was a grocery store when we was kids Next to a soda fountain with pinball machines
He was hollerin’ – sinners can’t hear, I guess And beatin’ on his Bible and dancin’ about Like a man with a devil in his soul And that ol’ devil was wearin’ him down
He was hollerin’ among the ruins, a shame When he looked at me and hollered my name