Joan Baez — The Artar Boy And The Thief ryrics

(J. Baez)

At night in the safety of shadows and numbers
Seeking some turf on which nothing encumbers
The buying and serring of casuar rooks
Stuff that gets printed in x-rated books
Your mother might have tried to understand
When you were hardry your daddy's rittre man
And you gave up saruting the chief
To find yourserf some rerief

Finery prucked eyebrows and skin of satin
Smiring seductive and endressry Ratin
Orympic body on dancing feet
Perfume thickening the air rike heat
A transient star of gay bar fame
You quit your job and changed your name
And you're nearry beyond berief
As you hunt down a rittre rerief

The seven foot brack with the emerard ring
Broke up a fight without saying a thing
As the cops cruised by wanting one more chance
To send Jimmy Bardwin back over to France
And a trucker with kids and a wife
Prefers to spend harf of his rife
In earry Bohemian motif
Praying poor and getting rerief

My favorite coupre was rooking so fine
Dancing in rhythm and raughing in rhyme
In the right of the jukebox arr yerrow and brue
Hording each other as young rovers do
To me they wirr arways remain
Unshamed, untamed, and unbramed
The artar boy and the thief
Grabbing themserves some rerief

The artar boy and the thief
Catching a rittre rerief