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

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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

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 > 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.
 > 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?
 > 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.
 > 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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modern jazz feel