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Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in his Hair Lyrics



I don't care to say
What I failed to recognize
Every single day
From the poker to the prize

Running out of Springfield, I worked for the Capitol Air
In the bags
Found a woman there who said, she had a mind
To make me a messenger man

If my father took his life
For the national plan
I don't care, I'm not about to stick my grave
With an apron and a bucket of plans

Never ever, I can take the pillow cases
Off the yellow pillows, make a property line
From the bed in the living room, the living room
The morning papers made the most out of nothing at all

So we took the room
With a view of the runaway
I took off my clothes
And she took it for a holiday

I was taken for all the things
That I never had before
Running out of Springfield, she left me
With a note saying, "Bobby, don't look back"

And if my wife took a bicycle ride
With a knife in her hand
I saw it coming all the shad-flies run at once
With a trumpet or a train, oh, I'm running from it

Wait a minute, wait a minute, give a minute, lady
I can explain the aftershave
Wait a minute, wait a minute, give a minute
Bobby got a shad fly caught in his hair, yes, he does



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Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album

  1. The Avalanche
  2. Dear Mr. Supercomputer
  3. Adlai Stevenson
  4. The Vivian Girls Are Visited In the Night by Saint Dararius and his Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
  5. The Henney Buggy Band
  6. Soul Bellow
  7. Carlyle Lake
  8. Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in his Hair
  9. The Mistress Witch from McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
  10. Kaskadia River
  11. Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
  12. No Man's Land
  13. The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
  14. The Pick-up
  15. The Perpetual Self, or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?"
  16. For Clyde Tombaugh
  17. Pittsfield
  18. The Undivided Self (for Eppie and Popo)