Terrible Thing

I did something horrible

I did a terrible thing

I did something horrible

I did a terrible thing

I gave up (you say)

I gave up (you say)

I gave up (you say)

I just threw it all away

I did something horrible

I did a terrible thing

Up in the Bronx

Where the white goose honks

And the trees spread out

like soldiers

There's a miscreant's pay

That gets socked away

in an empty can of Folger's

I did something horrible--

Down in the ground

where the worms dance 'round

'cause their dinner

came unwrapped

There's a piece of a guy

who refused to lie --

A knee and thigh

but he got himself trapped

That's me down there

With the blood in my hair

And my face

down in the clover

I was alive

at nine forty-five

But now my time is over

Lyrics Submitted by Richard Gagnon