Chicken

She saw me walking down the streets of your fine city

Wherever we are right now

Kinda turned me on when she looked at me and said

Whatever people say around here

I don't usually talk to strangers

That’s a bold faced lie

I talk to strangers all the time

Well, that's most of my life

She took me out where the streetlights were placed a little further apart

I've walked around for about forty years and seen a lot of people

Some of them have impressed me, but not that much

And I said:

"Who do I talk to here? What race of man is this? I got problems baby, I got complaints"

She looked up at the hotel behind me and her eyes got big like dinner plates, she said:

Baby get your torch and your pitchforks out

Hate to be a chicken when the wolves come out

Hate to be the middle when the bottom drops out

She started pulling stuff out from behind the camera

A case of glue and a stick of dynamite

It was right about then that I realised this whole time

I’d thought that this was a joke or a metaphor or something

But this ain't joking time

This isn't  private school

Where you think they got those night sticks and hats

She said look around Harry, half the people talking right past each other

Half the people just sitting back

She said:

Baby get your torch and your pitchforks out

Hate to meet your Maker in the big boy town

How was she riding a motorcycle

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How was she riding a motorcycle?

And how come I don't know how to do that?

Baby get your torch and your pitchforks out

Hate to crash a party like a single male

Hate to meet your Maker in the big boy town

Hate to be the middle when the bottom drops out

Baby get your torch and your pitchforks out

Hate to crash a party like a single male

Hate to meet your Maker in the big boy town

Hate to be the middle when the bottom drops out

Hate to be a chicken when the wolves come out

Baby get your torch and your pitchforks out

Hate to crash a party like a single male

Hate to meet your Maker in the big boy town

Hate to be a chicken when the wolves come out