Re: "Rag-Picker Joe" / Will Dockery & Henry Conley

Will Dockery wrote:

Zod wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

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"Rag-Picker Joe" / Will Dockery & Henry Conley

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https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery/song/26082646-rag-picker-joe--will-dockery-henry?0

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Rag-Picker Joe written by Will Dockery & Henry Conley, trumpet by Riley
Yielding, clarinet & bass by Doug Conley, drums by John Phillips.

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Rag-Picker Joe

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On a stroll,
along a Southside dole.

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To collect my thoughts
and learn what I used to know.

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Ambling down the street
friend to all he meets
here comes Rag-Picker Joe:

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"Hey hey man,
you got a pistol in your hand.
Don't go doing the things
we often talked about..."

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Rag-Picker Joe,
it's our lives now don't you know?

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It just ain't worth
doing all that time...

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Sally Sue came back
took his Cadillac
her brothers jacked him up
and left him on the curb.

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This is life in the city
we got our ways and our means.

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Rag-Picker Joe...

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He said:
"Man
I got the upper hand,
gonna win this war
come high water or ice."

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Rag-Picker Joe
why did you go do
all those things you did?

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Rag-Picker Joe
do do do do...
those things we talked about in jest.

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That's the last I seen of old Joe
he got blown away by the tornado
an act of God but absolutely just.

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Rag-Picker Joe
why did you go do
things we often talked about in jest?

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Rag-Picker Joe
blown away by a tornado
sad case but what did we expect?

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-Will Dockery

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Listened to this over my ear buds again loved it

Good evening, my friend, and thanks again.

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Good evening? It’s almost 6 o’clock in the morning.