Lyrics to Silverstein

shel silverstein - alimony
alimony alimony i work till my fingers are bloody and boney me oh my oh goodness sake i'm paying for my mistake she calls it alimony alimony yeah you single men may think it's funny till one of these silverstein

shel silverstein - all about you
in the grandville greyhound station in the lightly drizzlin' rain sittin' on my suitcase goin' quietly insane all about you babe all about you all about you and then no feelin' double dealin' things t silverstein

shel silverstein - better not ask me
(hey the truth might hurt so i'm tellin' you now that you better not ask me) hey you better not ask me where i been all night why my eyes are shinin' and my spirit is flyin' you better not ask if i be silverstein

shel silverstein - bigtime
hey dragged up my holly and i pull it to a town for the bigtime hey rig down the road i tore 'em down i'm a bigtime i wheeled right in them swinging doors out through the window with half of that stor silverstein

shel silverstein - boy named sue
my daddy left home when i was three, and he didn't leave much to ma and me... just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. now, i don't blame him cause he run and hid, but the meanest thing that silverstein

shel silverstein - changing of the seasons
oh the changing of the seasons it's a pretty thing to see and though i find this balmy weather pleasin' there's the wind come from tomorrow and i hear it callin' me and i'm bound for the changing of t silverstein

shel silverstein - cloudy sky
the moon she is a pretty girl who lives up in the stars and that old cloud he's a great old man who loves her from afar he loves her from afar when lady moon smiles down on him ol' cloud is all a-wond silverstein

shel silverstein - comin' after jinny
he'll be comin' down the road at the break of day his head thrown back and his guns tied low he's comin' after jinny wants to take her away but i ain't gonna let her go oh he boasted in town but she silverstein

shel silverstein - crouchin' on the outside
one two three four five six seven eight hey baby you're a little too late i'm standin' on the outside lookin' in at you on the inside lookin' out at me on the outside lookin' in through the window of silverstein

shel silverstein - dance to it
well hey miss go-go won't you stop for a minute cause the song you dance to it got somethin' in it there's a lotta things those long funny words can teach ya yeah but the words don't reach ya oh where silverstein

shel silverstein - daylight dreamer
here's the half-finished painting of a girl that i started last december here's the first three pages of my novel bout i don't really remember here's my martin guitar that i never quite learned how to silverstein

shel silverstein - diet song
well breakfast black coffee one slice of dry toast no butter no jelly no jam lunch just some lettuce two celery stalks no booze no potatoes no ham dinner one chicken wing broiled not fried no gravy no silverstein

shel silverstein - dirty ol' me
well i was sittin' up in my crane leftin' boulders in the rain can't get promoted no matter what i do ah when the forman he comes around and he yells up from the ground he says hold that load up there silverstein

shel silverstein - don't give a dose to the one you love most
yes my dear i must admit that one time i might did (and if you grow wiser for me experience) yes my dear i grew wiser in many ways and the thing i learned most is don't give a dose to the one you love silverstein

shel silverstein - drain my brain
unwind my mind oh baby drain my brain unscrew my head take a part of my heart scrape away the pain and start all over again i tell you baby i don't understand just how you can make love to me while y silverstein

shel silverstein - father of a boy named sue
(okay now years ago i wrote a song called a boy named sue and that was okay and everything except then i started to think about it and i thought it is unfair i am looking at the whole thing from the silverstein

shel silverstein - floobie doobie doo
as i walk down to bishop street i met a girl who smiled so sweet now she was young and pretty too and on a string she walked with a thing called the floobie doobie doo oh the floobie doobie doo now wh silverstein

shel silverstein - goodnight little houseplant
goodnight little houseplant asleep on the sill i'll pull the shades so you don't catch a chill and tomorrow in the morning don't be breaskfast for two we'll have ham and eggs for me and nitrogen for y silverstein

shel silverstein - grizzly bear
yeah they call me grizzly bear got long black grizzly hair walk down the street and everybody stop and stare ohohoh well i'm wild and wooly and free and so you'd better not mess with me lemme tell you silverstein