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

Will Dockery wrote:
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On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 8:15:02 AM UTC-4, poleposi...@gmail.com
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On Monday, April 11, 2022 at 1:55:12 PM UTC-6, tzod...@gmail.com wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:
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zodthemighty1 wrote on Tue, 20 August 2019 04:10

On Friday, March 15, 2019 at 12:08:51 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

"Michael Pendragon" wrote in message
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On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 12:17:53 AM UTC-5, Will Dockery

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A little visit to Tin Pan Alley. Check out free download of

the

day

"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.
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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Congratulations, Will.

Thanks, Pendragon...

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A good modern jazz feel on here....

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Not sure if this one from Nova BBS posted everywhere.

It did my friend....

who the fuck is Will Dockery anyway?

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Hello again, Greg, I'm an old timer here and at
alt.arts.poetry.comments, an active poetry group you might like to join
in on:

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https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments

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Not for the faint of heart, though.

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:)

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You got that right... ha ha.