INTRO: C G Am F Dm C F G
VERSE 1:
Cardboard sign
old and bent s
ays ‘friend for l
ife 25 cents
When did this start makin
g sens
e, Man it’s really gettin
g cold
Sometimes I forget things
and I get confused
I could still be working
, but they refuse
Now I’m living with the bums and
the wes and the a
bused, man I hate
getting ol
d
CHORUS:
Homeless, get
away from here don
t give them no money they’ll
just spend it
on beer
Homeless, will
work for fo
od, you’ll do anything that
you gotta do, when
you’re hom
eless.
VERSE 2:
Betty sings a
song that no on
e hears, as the w
ind begins to freeze her tears
She says ‘God it’s been s
o many
years’, she’s way past c
omplain’n
She sings a he
artelt melody,
one that begs for
harmony
No it’s not what she
thought it would
be, but hey it could be ra
inin
CHORUS:
Homeless, get
away from here don
t give them no money they’ll
just spend it
on beer
Homeless, will
work for fo
od, you’ll do anything that
you gotta do, when
you’re hom
eless.
VERSE 3:
You know life
ain’t easy it t
akes work, it tak
es healing cause you’re gonna
get hurt
You can lose your faith y
ou can
lose your shirt, lose yo
ur way sometimes
Ah
y
ou
never really have control, sometimes you just gotta let it go
When the final line
unfolds, it don’t
always rhyme
REPEAT CHORUS x2
Cardboard sign
old and bent s
ays ‘friend for l
ife 25 cents