had jailhouse blues and blue suede shoes
and I was too young to know
he probably stole them from black people
to besotted by backcomb and back-beat to care
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I did not know it would be so hard to be a man, and to learn how so very quickly, and to always come up so short.
Shave and a Haircut, get your tickets now, so we know how many chairs to buy.
eleanor j jackson 