rags and bones

Lyrics

catch a taxi to the fountainhead, blinking neon penny arcade, a young caruso on the fire escape, painted face ladies on parade, the newsboy on the corner, singing out headlines, and a fiddler selling pencils, the sign reads: help the blind, comin' up the lane callin', workin' while the rain's fallin', ragman, your song of the street, keeps haunting my memory, music in the air, i hear it ev'rywhere, rags, bones and old city songs, hear them, how they talk to me, trolley car rings out the morning, whistle blows at noon, a cat fight breaks open the night, while watch dogs bay at the moon, a preacher on an orange crate, with a salvation army band, and clicking along the cobbled stones, that's the sound of the ice-cream man, comin' up the lane callin', workin' while the rain's fallin', ragman, your song of the street, keeps haunting my memory, music in the air, i hear it ev'rywhere, rags, bones and old city songs, hear them, how they talk to me, the organ grinder and his monkey, still walkin' the same old beat, the shoe-shine boy slappin' leather, he puts the rhythm in your feet, strollin' by the churchyard, list'nin' to the sunday choir, with voices rising to the heavens, like sirens screaming to a fire, comin' up to the lane callin', workin' while the rain's fallin', ragman, your song of the street, keeps haunting my memory, music in the air, i hear it ev'rywhere, rags, bones and old city songs, play them one more time for me