Kathleen Maddox's only son
Hobo train on nobody
Boxcar, jug of wine
Straight razor get too close to me
They're fired for robbery
But that's not what she's known around here for
By the time I was five
School was on fire
She told her she couldn't take it no more
They call him creepy but he showed me how
To play a couple chords on a guitar
They also showed me how to turn a bitch out
A heartless trick but it took me far
By the end of the fifties I had all of my own
For a song and a sweet talk or two, right?
But learning how
Going in and out
Of the system was almost the same thing to do
When I got out everything changed
Easy to fool but those strings
Tell a hippie girl she's pretty and she'll cry for days
But you give it away so you can make it pay
So all of the girls agree
That together we could make a rock star out of me
But then we started taking acid
Things really got out of hand, man
I don't like looking back on those late nights
Words we said, clothes we wore
I act crazy when I get asked about
I can't explain how I can't explain no more
But it wasn't only the Beatles
We also jammed out to the Moody Blues, man
A lot of music spoke to you back then, man
The music spoke to you back then