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Article #518449Re: Little Homeless Clown / a poem by Will Dockery
From: Will Dockery
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 17:08
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 17:08
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On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:04:04 AM UTC-4, Beach Comber wrote: > Will Dockery wrote: > > > Little Homeless Clown / a poem by Will Dockery > > > > The sign on the door read enter at your own risk. > > Too many times now betrayed by the Judas kiss. > > My baby rode by in a brand new pickup truck. > > She waved goodbye, blew me a kiss for luck. > > So I been out rambling shambling through the trailer park 'til dawn. > > She was frozen in the hall like headlines on a fawn. > > Give me another run before the sun goes down. > > Give me another hit my little... homeless clown. > > > > All alone in this big old house again. > > Harangued by all my so-called friends. > > Well it's too late now she's riding with the wind. > > Just last week she said she'd stick by me to the end. > > Ain't no crystal ball but I can feel it in the back of my bones. > > She got a sugar daddy she ain't never coming home. > > Give me another run before the sun goes down. > > Give me another hit my little.. homeless clown. > > > > I could tell she was lonely, it just wasn't for me, > > She's got a little hankering to be a divorcee. > > Give me another run,before the sun goes down. > > Give me another hit my little... homeless clown. > > > > -Will Dockery (poem)/ Henry Conley (melody) > > Intense just like her lovely soul...... This one definitely comes across better when heard with with the music setting: Little Homeless Clown by Will Dockery (words) and Henry Conley (music): https://archive.org/details/LittleHomelessClown_952 Take three, for comparison and discussion...
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