Townes van Zandt: "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"

Townes van Zandt
Johnson City, Tn.
4/18/85

up on Housing Project Hill
it's either fortune or fame
you must pick one or the other
though neither of them
are to be what they claim
if you're looking to get silly
you'd better go back to
from where you came
because the cops don't need you
and, man, they expect the same
--bob dylan (from "just like tom thumb's blues ")