Don't Wake the Scarecrow - The Felice Brothers

Would you love me

If I told you I was born upstream

If I told you I come from money

White money

Would you love me

Would you love me

Well, I was born down

By a bad little river in a poor town

Where an indian-giver put a board out

It said «Boarding House»

Called him Scarecrow

He kept whores around

And I’d go there

I’d wait my turn on the broke stairs

And get me the girl with the gold hair

Aw yeah, leave your clothes there

On the folding chair

In that cold room

Your breath would twist just like ghosts do

You said, «Call me Dorothy in red shoes»

And the bed moved

The bed moved

The bed moved

Tracy, don’t you wake that scarecrow tonight

Well, the man would come in

It’s hard living right giving head when

The sad days of winter have set in

And the medicine for a mannequin is heroin

I’d find you there in the bath

We’d cook up your shit in a tin can

And you started calling me Tin Man

And we started making plans to begin again

Begin again

You saved a C note

Told me you felt like a seagull

Told me to meet at the depot

With the needles, then maybe we’d go

To Reno

Where you’d be my desert dove

And we’d find a way to make better love

Said, «Baby, that’s how the West was won»

And the blood-red sun

Yeah, the blood-red sun

And the blood-red sun

Tracy, don’t you wake that scarecrow tonight

Well, the man cries

«Who gives a damn when a tramp dies?»

But I loved you there in the lamp light

With your bare thighs

And the halo of your hairline

And all my lifelong

I’ll never shake off your siren song

And all of your talk about dying young

With an iron lung and that crazy way

You said, «Simon

I think I might stay here with Scarecrow tonight

Simon, I think I’m gonna stay here with Scarecrow tonight.»