Spoon Follow

there was an old lady she lived in a shoe

she got a whole lot of kids

you can’t miss em when you’s coming through

cause she be shacked up with little boy blue

but half them kids

ain't seen their pops since like 1982

but down the street next to the swap meet

that’s the spot where the 3 little pigs

yo they be catching beef

they took tweedledee

and knocked out his front teeth

and left tweedledum just straight bleeding

on the back seat

I live on the corner man next to Jack and Jill

you know them two brother and sisters

who be acting ill

I tell em to step back and chill

but they’ll smack ya grill

now let me tell you straight up

now you can catch the deal

you know Humpty dumpty man

they straight played him

knocked him off the wall scrambled him up

now and ate him

see I aint playing where I live

I got to stay praying

and every time I come around

y'all can hear me saying

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Mary had a little lamb case you didn’t know

that little lamb took my sin made it white as snow

and every where that the lamb will go

that’s the place I got to go man

I got to see the streets of gold

Sitting on the corner

with my tape recorder and Jack Horner

kicking freestyle raps for scraps of spare change

to change my money range and cry like Danny Ainge

till I make enough checks

to win back my ex girl friend

I can’t pretend I didn’t wish

that I’d never seen her ill demeanor

and this fly dish

and the spoon ran away broke out to Santa Fe

left me cold aint seen her since Saturday

but hey I got to say I been dissed since way back

bought a girl a knick knack but patty was wack

in fact I’ll get em all back using my rap sheet

and make em outcast singing bah with the black sheep

and take them to phat beats and show them my work

and have them say I’m the man

and play them out like a jerk

and flirt with a wink and eyebrow on tilt

and leave them there while I go

to the house that Jack built singing.

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Don’t get me started on Jack be Nimble

I mean that cat’s the kind of dude

who just always seems to stay in trouble

he always got to hustle kicking it

with the 3 blind mice

on the corner selling magic beans rolling dice

now I be giving him advice

but he can’t understand

Patty Cake? she used to chill w/ the bakers man

she got God in her life now

and if you see her right now

it’s a whole another sight now

see I be quite proud

just to see how Christ showed and blowed up

and just turned her whole life around

sometime I’m wishing I was living in a nicer town

you know a place where London bridge

ain't always falling down

ya boy Old McDonald he’s a little older now

he had a farm but well it’s kind of gone for now

but see I’m a hold it down cause I got to stay praying

and every time I come around yall can hear me saying

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