Cans

G D G C Homeless, helpless, hopeless, I guess G D I’d be penniless unless I found G D G C Beer cans, Coke cans, all kinds in my hands G D G Reach straight down and snatch them from the ground G D G C Plastic garbage bags are what I G D Put them in then there’s this cart I found G D G C In thee Apple tree parking lot where G D G No one saw it softly roll away G D G C Metal miser, dumpster diver G D You can’t believe the things they throw in there G D G C Cops on horseback, stay on my back G D G Say “don’t care where you go, just don’t stay here” G D Well I got my stash bed G C Tossed beneath the interstate G D Rolling for the southie side of town G D Well it’s 24 cents a pound G C For all the cans you can haul down G D Is that a deal or what? G I’d like to know G D Well now night falls, I fall G C Down and sleepy G D ‘neath my favorite bridge, I’m not alone G D And now sun up, brings up G C One more day just G D G Like the day I had the day before G D G C Homeless, helpless, hopeless, I guess G D I’d be penniless unless I found G D G C Beer cans, Coke cans, all kinds in my hands G D G Reach straight down and snatch them from the ground