I'll sing you a song, ain't very long About a man who never done wrong How he died nobody can say They found him in the street one day
Well, the crowd they gathered one fine 'morn At the man whose clothes and shoes Were torn There on the sidewalk, he did lay They stoppped and stared And they walked their way
Now, the policeman come And he looked around, "Get up, old man, or I'm a-takin' you down" He jabbed him once with his bully club And the old man then rolled off the curb
Well, he jabbed him again and loudly he said, "Call the wagon; this man is dead" The wagon came, they loaded him in I never saw that man again
I've sung you my song, it ain't very long 'Bout an old man that never done wrong How he died, no one can say They found him dead on the street one day