Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues-Ramblin' Jack Elliott

[ti:Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues] [ar:Ramblin' Jack Elliott] [al:I'm Not There (Music From The Motion Picture)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott [01:03.45]When you're lost in the rain [01:06.14]In Juarez and it's Easter time too [01:09.83] [01:13.64]And your gravity fails [01:15.90]And negativity won't pull you through [01:19.90] [01:23.46]Don't put on any airs [01:26.14]When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue [01:30.13] [01:33.13]They got some hungry women there [01:36.68]And man they'll really make a mess outta you [01:39.74] [01:43.67]Now if you see Saint Annie [01:46.73]Please tell her thanks a lot [01:49.22] [01:54.14]I cannot move [01:56.64]My fingers are all in a knot [01:59.76] [02:04.09]I don't have the strength [02:06.39]To get up and take another shot [02:09.83] [02:13.57]And my best friend my doctor [02:16.19]Won't even say what it is I've got [02:19.68] [02:24.11]Sweet Melinda [02:25.68] [02:26.49]The peasants call her the goddess of gloom [02:29.61] [02:33.66]She speaks good English [02:36.22]And she invites you up into her room [02:39.34] [02:43.77]And you're so kind and careful [02:47.20]Not to go to her too soon [02:53.32]And she takes your voice [02:55.88]And leaves you howlin' at the moon [02:59.25] [03:03.23]Up on Housing Project Hill [03:05.92]It's either fortune or fame [03:10.74] [03:12.90]You must pick up on one or the other [03:15.90]Though neither of them are to be what they claim [03:19.96] [03:22.89]If you're lookin' to get silly [03:25.45]You better go back to from where you came [03:32.06]Because the cops don't need you [03:34.88]And man they expect the same [03:40.30] [04:21.02]Now all the authorities [04:23.46]They just stand around and boast [04:27.08] [04:30.07]How they blackmailed the Sergeant at Arms [04:33.43]Into leavin' his post [04:38.61] [04:40.74]And pickin' up Angel [04:42.36]Who just arrived here from the coast [04:45.36] [04:49.29]Who looked so fine at first [04:51.72]But left lookin' just like a ghost [04:55.22] [04:58.90]I started out on Burgundy [05:01.14]But soon hit the harder stuff [05:03.75] [05:08.25]Everybody said they'd stand behind me [05:11.93]When the game got rough [05:15.11] [05:17.54]But the joke was on me [05:20.03]There was nobody even there to call my bluff [05:25.04] [05:27.04]I'm goin' back to New York City [05:29.91]I do believe I've had enough