Orange Claw Hammer

A thick cloud caught a piper cub's tail The match struck blue on a railroad rail The old puff horse was just pullin' through And a man wore a pegleg forever I'm on the bum where the hobos run The air breaks with filthy chatter Oh I don't care there's no place there, don't think it matters My skin's blazin' through and my clothes in tatters And the railroad look like a "why" up the hill of ladders One shoe fell on the gravel One stick poked down Gray of age fell down on a pair of ears An eagle shined through my whole watch pocket A gingham girl, baby girl, passed me by in tears A jack rabbit raised his folded ears A beautiful sagebrush jack rabbit And an oriole sang like an orange His breast full o'worms And his tail clawed the evenin' like a hammer His wings took to air like a bomber And my rain can caught me a cup o'water When I got into town Odd-jobs mam, ah your horse, I'll fodder I'm the round house man, I once was your father A little up the road, a wooden candy-stripe barber pole And above it read a sign, "Painless Parker" Licorice twisted around under a fly And a youngster cocked her eye God, before me if I'm not crazy, is my daughter Come, little one, with your little old dimpled fingers Gimme one and I'll buy you a cherry phosphate Take you down to the foamin' brine and water And show you the wooden tits on the Goddess With the pole out full sail, that tempted away your pegleg father I was shanghaied by a high-hat beaver mustache man and his pirate friend I woke up in vomit 'n beer in a banana bin And a soft lass with brown skin Bore me seven babies with snappin' black eyes And beautiful ebony skin And here is, is I'm with you, my daughter, thirty years Away can make a seaman's eyes, a round house man's eyes Flow out water, salt water