Lonely Street

Sometimes when
I'm walking down
This lonely street
Well  it sure don't seem
Like twenty years
Since I went walking
Down this lonely street
And the smell of perfumed
Ladies filled the air
This street ain't got no name
Dead end is in the river
And I lived where
I hated life day by day
There wasn't nothing
I could do to shake a cold night shiver
'Cause to move up
Lonely Street you had to have some say
Gambling is bad luck down on Lonely Street
And it sure ain't no place to be
When a man gets sore
You know I killed a man and I paid all I can
With twenty years on a chain gang
For the flesh and the blood on
That jailhouse floor
Sometimes when
I'm walking down this lonely street
I get caught up in a dream
That won't let me go
And as the bright lights flash up and
Down this lonely street
My mind rolls back the years
Long time ago
I see my baby stumblin' around
With tears in her eyes
And as I reach out for her she
Falls on the floor
She mumbles through
Bloody lips about a bad man  robber  raper
And in my gut I know I got one to score
I need somebody
I need somebody
The word was comin' down
Down on Lonely Street
That the bad man was
A dead man if he crossed my trail
Every night I'd walk up and
Down this Lonely Street
I get stinkin' drunk  and always in jail
One night they threw me in
With a man they called the mangler
He was caught on the
Street makin' some old whore
I remember he was quite proud of that
So half-crazed I shot him
And I cried in the blood on that jailhouse floor