Johnny Ryall is the bum on my stoop
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I gave him fifty cents to buy some soup
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He knows the time with the fresh Gucci watch
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He's even more over than the mayor Ed Koch
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Washing windows on the Bowery at a quarter to four
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'Cause he ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
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Living on borrowed time and borrowed money
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Sleepin' on the street there ain't a damn thing funny
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Hand me down food and hand me down clothes
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A rockabilly past of which nobody knows
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Makes his home all over the place
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He goes to sleep by falling down on his face
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Sometimes known as the leader of the homeless
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Sometimes drunk and he's always phoneless
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Sleepin' on the street in a cardboard box
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He's better off drinkin' than smokin' the rocks
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Johnny Ryall, Johnny Ryall
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He drinks where he lies
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He's covered with flies
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He's got the hand me down Pumas and the tie dyes
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Go upstate and get your head together
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Thunderbird is the word and you're light as a feather
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Detox at the flop house no booze allowed
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Remember the good old days with the rockabilly crowd
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Memphis is where he's from
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He lives in the street but he's no bum
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A rockabilly star from the days of old
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He used to have teeth all filled with gold
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A platinum voice but only gold records
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On the bass was boots on the drums was checkers
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Luis Vuitton with the Gucci guitar
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Johnny Ryall
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Who do you think you are
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Johnny Ryall, Johnny Ryall
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Donald Trump Donald Tramp living in the Men's Shelter
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Wonder Bread bag shoes and singing Helter Skelter
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He asks for a dollar you know what it's for
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Bottle after bottle he'll always need more
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He's no less important than you working class stiffs
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Drinks a lot of liquor but he don't drink piss
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Paid his dues playing the blues
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He claims that he wrote the Blue Suede Shoes
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Elvis shaved his head when he went into the army
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That's right y'all his name is
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Johnny
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Johnny Ryall, Johnny Ryall
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