Testo Hunger & Cold Phil Ochs
Iâve been all around your dirty old city
Been all around your dirty old town [shades of ewan maccoll --.ed]
Iâve slept in your alleys, Iâve slept in your subways
Hunger and cold, they follow me down
Chorus:
Hunger and cold, hunger and cold
I wouldnât mind but Iâm growing so old
But as low as I am, you know Iâm still a man
And I wouldnât mind but Iâm growing so old
Only last year I was rolling in money
Only last year the good times would roll
Only last year my friends were so many
But only last year was so long ago
(chorus)
Itâs all so easy to throw me in prison
Itâs all so easy to just walk on by
But itâs not so easy to see a man hungry
Itâs not so easy to look in his eye
(chorus)
Yes thereâs poison in my cheap rotten liquor
Thereâs poison in every old garbage can
But the worst kind of poison
Is in your own brain
When you look at me and forget Iâm a man.