Lights Of The Commodore Barry

D I saw the lights of the Commodore Barry From the deck of the ghost of the flower street ferry G A And I felt the shock of an atom bomb D A When the tired old city of Chester Em A Was draped and dying in my arms D For a while I was lost under the weight of remembering Of how the sun would warn the projects some mornings G A When the birds were falling like winter's frozen rain D A And I was all fingers numb holding a brown paper lunch Em A Twelve years old and already ashamed D, G, A, D, A, Em, A D Now soon I was floating over Highland Avenue By my side was the Red Cross, the Pope and the President too G A Yeah I had returned like I swore I would D A To right some wrongs and sing my song Em A And share the luck that every man should D But when the fever broke and I awoke from the dream I was passed out beside a jukebox siphoning gasoline G A When my brother yanked me hard from the corner bar D A And carried my drunk bones all the way home Em A Draped and heavy in his arms End on D