Guy Clark – Homeless Chords

Cardboard sign, old and bent,
Says “Friend for life, twenty five cents”
When did this start making sense;
Man it’s really getting cold

Sometimes I forget things and I get confused.
I could still be working but they refuse.
Now I’m living with the bums and the whores and the abused;
Man I hate gettin’ old

Homeless, get away from here;
Don’t give them no money they’ll just spend it on beer
Homeless, will work for food,
You’ll do anything that you gotta do,
When you’re homeless.

Betty sings a song that no one hears,
As the wind begins to freeze her tears
She says ‘God, it’s been so many years’,
She’s way past complainin’.

She sings a heartfelt melody,
One that begs for harmony
No, it’s not what she thought it would be,
But hey, it could be rainin’

Homeless, get away from here;
Don’t give them no money they’ll just spend it on beer
Homeless, will work for food,
You’ll do anything that you gotta do,
When you’re homeless.

You know life ain’t easy, it takes work,
It takes healin’ ’cause you’re gonna get hurt.
You can lose your faith, you can lose your shirt,
Lose your way sometimes

Ah, you never really have control,
Sometimes you just gotta let it go
When the final line unfolds,
It don’t always rhyme

Homeless, get away from here;
Don’t give them no money they’ll just spend it on beer
Homeless, will work for food,
You’ll do anything that you gotta do,
When you’re homeless.

Homeless, get away from here;
Don’t give them no money they’ll just spend it on beer
Homeless, will work for food,
You’ll do anything that you gotta do,
When you’re homeless.

Cardboard sign, old and bent,
Says “Friend for life, twenty five cents”