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Robert Harrison
Guest
A HELPING HAND
DO THE SAME FOUR WALLS THAT YOU SEE EACH DAY,
SEEM TO PRESS MORE AND MORE ON YOUR MIND,
AND THE CHORES, ALWAYS THERE, FOR THERE'S NO ESCAPE,
CREEP UP ON FROM BEHIND.
HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE PACKING YOUR BAGS,
AND GOING TO SOMEWHERE NEW,
OF SAYING GOODBY TO THE FOLKS NEXT DOOR,
AND THEN JUST SOOTING THROUGH.
IT DID NOT MATTER WHERE YOU FINISHED
UP JUST SO LONG AS YOU GOT AWAY,
AND THE WEATHER, LET IT RAIN OR SHINE,
YOU WOULD BE HAPPY AT THE END OF THE DAY.
WITH HELP FROM YOU, I KNOW THAT I WOULD DO IT,
AND IF YOU REALLY HAVE THE NERVE,
WOULD YOU PLEASE BRING A ROPE AND FILE TO MY CELL,
YOU SEE, I STILL HAVE FIVE YEARS TO SERVE.
BOB HARRISON
DO THE SAME FOUR WALLS THAT YOU SEE EACH DAY,
SEEM TO PRESS MORE AND MORE ON YOUR MIND,
AND THE CHORES, ALWAYS THERE, FOR THERE'S NO ESCAPE,
CREEP UP ON FROM BEHIND.
HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE PACKING YOUR BAGS,
AND GOING TO SOMEWHERE NEW,
OF SAYING GOODBY TO THE FOLKS NEXT DOOR,
AND THEN JUST SOOTING THROUGH.
IT DID NOT MATTER WHERE YOU FINISHED
UP JUST SO LONG AS YOU GOT AWAY,
AND THE WEATHER, LET IT RAIN OR SHINE,
YOU WOULD BE HAPPY AT THE END OF THE DAY.
WITH HELP FROM YOU, I KNOW THAT I WOULD DO IT,
AND IF YOU REALLY HAVE THE NERVE,
WOULD YOU PLEASE BRING A ROPE AND FILE TO MY CELL,
YOU SEE, I STILL HAVE FIVE YEARS TO SERVE.
BOB HARRISON