Minor Blues-Buddy Whittington

[ti:Minor Blues] [ar:Buddy Whittington] [al:Buddy Whittington] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Minor Blues - Buddy Whittington [00:30.75]They say the globe is getting warmer [00:32.92] [00:33.44]But the world's still growing cold [00:35.09] [00:35.71]There's no room in the shelter [00:37.20] [00:37.77]For the hungry and the old [00:39.16] [00:39.84]People living under bridges in confusion and despair [00:43.54] [00:44.08]Their keeping house in cardboard boxes [00:46.37]In the sub zero night air [00:48.09] [00:48.75]With no hope of employment [00:50.11] [00:50.96]There aingt much left to lose [00:52.46] [00:53.08]It's a major situation giving me the minor blues [00:57.99] [01:01.63]On the corner stares a hooker [01:04.12]With the hollow looking eyes [01:05.41] [01:06.17]She'll turn a trick and score an fix an overdose an die [01:09.84] [01:10.57]By the time the county's buried her [01:12.73]In a low rent pauper's grave [01:14.31] [01:15.48]Her little sister's out there on that corner sick with aids [01:18.51] [01:19.27]You won't see it in the paper [01:20.61] [01:21.43]'Cause it seldom makes the news [01:23.26]But it's a major situation giving me the minor blues [01:28.62] [01:32.52]The minor blues is saddest with it's own sorrow and pain [01:35.96] [01:36.84]You'll know it when you hear it [01:38.76]With it's sombre sad refrain [01:40.57] [01:41.24]You say it's not my problem [01:42.60] [01:43.18]Say there's nothing I can do [01:44.52] [01:45.26]But this aingt some third world country [01:47.60]It's right here with me and you [01:49.24] [01:49.75]It's a game land in the school yard [01:52.05]No place to play and run [01:53.35] [01:54.45]Twelve year olds with crack pots [01:56.39]Smoking ice and packing guns [01:57.82] [01:58.42]See them hanging round the d**e house [02:00.65]Getting high and skipping school [02:02.33] [02:02.86]Cause no one's at home to love them [02:04.95]Teach them not to play the fool [02:06.57] [02:07.10]So the game becomes the family [02:08.64] [02:09.29]The only one they ever knew [02:10.77] [02:11.41]It's a major situation giving me the minor blues [02:16.54] [03:21.65]Street man in the alley in an alcoholic haze [03:25.02] [03:25.77]Built a bonfire in a barrel [03:27.91]Keeping warm back there for days [03:30.06]Said I'd lost my wife and family back in 1993 [03:33.64] [03:34.43]Till the lord comes back to get us [03:36.57]This is how it looks for me [03:38.29] [03:39.00]It's bedlam in the jailhouse as the doors revolve again [03:42.53] [03:43.32]There housing 25 where there should be eight to ten [03:46.98] [03:47.56]Streets are filled with characters all released too soon [03:51.30] [03:52.25]It aingt because they've done their time [03:54.56]It's 'cause they're out o' room [03:55.71] [03:56.43]It's called the justice system [03:57.91] [03:58.43]They say it works for me and you [04:00.08] [04:00.75]But the law is laced with loopholes [04:02.37] [04:02.98]And cracks that let the criminals crawl through [04:05.64] [04:31.38]It's a major situation giving me the minor blues