2002-12-25 - 9:53 a.m.
Mama killed a chicken, thought it was a duck
Put him on the table with his feet sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk
You gotta watch what you're doing, didn't you know
You gotta watch where you're going, didn't you know
Little Joe Billy went fishing for trout
Played hooky from school until the cops found out
Didn't have a father, was an only child
His mama never beat him, so he grew up wild
I knew a girl, sweet as can be
But she fell for a man like a chain saw a tree
She listen to his lies, fooled by his charms
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arms
Well everything's fine, until things get bad
Then you sit around thinking about the good times you had
Well it ain't no good to live a life of sin
If you don't shape up, you know you'll never get in
Some folks smile, they seem all right,
But you find out later they were an angel of light
Try to love everybody, but don't be blind
Because some kind of people try to mess your mind
Some folks say that the good lord is dead
That he doesn't exists, he's inside your head
I wonder how many gonna be surprised
When they look straight up
And see him coming through the skies
~Larry Norman
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Believed to be the 18th song on The Purple Tape but the song was never released.
"We did three days in a row, working twenty-four hours a day to save money. We recorded seventeen songs (eighteen if one counts the secret one I have stashed away!)" - Gary Smith in Rock A My Soul #1
The song was taken from a 1977 album by Larry Norman, a Christian folk singer who Charles (Black Francis) saw perform at summer camp when he was 13.
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