Amen Alley - Danny Byrd

[ti:you can call me all]
[ar:paul simon]
[by:]
[00:13.50]A man walks down the street
[00:15.50]He says why am I soft in the middle now
[00:17.50]Why am I soft in the middle
[00:19.50]The rest of my life is so hard
[00:21.50]I need a photo-opportunity
[00:22.50]I want a shot at redemption
[00:24.50]Don't want to end up a cartoon
[00:26.50]In a cartoon graveyard
[00:28.50]Bonedigger Bonedigger
[00:30.50]Dogs in the moonlight
[00:32.50]Far away my well-lit door
[00:35.50]Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
[00:37.50]Get these mutts away from me
[00:39.50]You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
[00:43.50]If you'll be my bodyguard
[00:45.50]I can be your long lost pal
[00:50.50]I can call you Betty
[00:52.50]And Betty when you call me
[00:54.50]You can call me Al
[00:58.50]A man walks down the street
[01:00.50]He says why am I short of attention
[01:02.50]Got a short little span of attention
[01:03.50]And wo mv nights are so long
[01:05.50]Where's my wife and family
[01:08.50]What if I die here
[01:09.50]Who'll be my role-model
[01:12.50]Now that my role-model is
[01:13.50]Gone Gone
[01:15.50]He ducked back down the alley
[01:16.50]With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
[01:19.50]All along along
[01:23.50]There were incidents and accidents
[01:24.50]There were hints and allegations
[01:28.50]If you'll be my bodyguard
[01:30.50]I can be your long lost pal
[01:35.50]I can call you Betty
[01:37.50]And Betty when you call me
[01:39.50]You can call me Al
[01:42.50]Call me Al
[02:28.50]A man walks down the street
[02:30.50]It's a street in a strange world
[02:32.50]Maybe it's the Third World
[02:34.50]Maybe it's his first time around
[02:36.50]He doesn't speak the language
[02:37.50]He holds no currency
[02:39.50]He is a foreign man
[02:41.50]He is surrounded by the sound
[02:44.50]The sound
[02:45.50]Cattle in the marketplace
[02:47.50]Scatterlings and orphanages
[02:49.50]He looks around, around
[02:52.50]He sees angels in the architecture
[02:55.50]Spinning in infinity
[02:56.50]He says Amen! and Halleluiah!
[04:18.50][04:02.50][02:58.50]If you'll be my bodyguard
[03:00.50]I can be your long lost pal
[04:25.50][04:09.50][03:05.50]I can call vou Betty
[03:07.50]And Betty when you call me
[03:11.50]You can call me Al