Talkin' Subway Lyrics

I struck out for old New York,
Thought I'd find me a job of work.
One leg up and the other leg down,
I come in through a hole in the ground.
Holland Tunnel. Three mile tube.
Skippin' through the Hudson River dew.

I blowed into New York town,
And I looked up and I looked down,
Everybody I seen on the streets
Was all a running down in a hole in the ground.
I follered 'em. See where they's a going.
Newsboy said they're tryin' to smoke a rat out of a hole.

I run down thirty eight flights of stairs,
Boy, howdy! I declare!
I rode old elevator twenty two
And spent my last lone nickel, too.
Feller in a little cage got it.
Herded me through a shoot the shoot.
Run me through three clothes wringers.
So many people down in there I couldn't even fall down.

I swung onto my old guitar,
Train come a rumbling down the track,
I got shoved into the wrong damn car
With three gra*s widows on my back.
Two of 'em looking for home relief,
Other one just investigating.

Woody Guthrie - Woody Guthrie's American Song (1994 PopeTheater Cast)

May 1996

1. Hard Travelin'
2. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)
3. Oklahoma Hills
4. Dust Storm Disaster
5. I Ain't Got No Home/ So Long
6. Bound for Glory
7. Do-Re-Mi
8. Worried Man, Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
9. End of My Line
10. Grand Coulee Dam
11. Pastures of Plenty
12. I Ain't Got No Home
13. Act II Introduction
14. Hard, Ain't It Hard
15. I Don't Feel at Home on the Bowery
16. Talkin' Subway
17. Union Maid
18. Reuben James
19. Nine Hundred Miles
20. Deportee
21. Better World a Comin'/ Lonesome Valley
22. This Land Is Your Land