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Thread #167122   Message #4026668
Posted By: Joe Offer
06-Jan-20 - 10:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Junco Partner (Dr John's version)
Subject: ADD: Junco Partner (The Clash version)
A Google search comes up with a transcription of the recording by The Clash, which still doesn't satisfy me (but it sure is interesting, and it's an amazing recording).

Down the road came a Junco Partner
For he was loaded as can be
He was knocked out, knocked out loaded
He was a'wobblin' all over the street

Singing six months ain't no sentence
And one year ain't no time
I was born in Angola
Serving fourteen to ninety nine

Well I wish I had me a million dollars
Oh one million to call my own
I would raise meat and say, "grow for me baby"
I would raise me a tobacco farm

Well I wish I would have me a great deal of money
Yeah and mighty good things all over town
Now I ain't got no more money
All of my good friends are putting me down

So now I gotta pawn my rifle and pistol
Yeah I'm gonna pawn my watch and chain
I would have pawned my seat Gabriella
But the smart girl she wouldn't sign her name

Give me headstone when I die

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Robert A. Shad
Junco Partner lyrics © BMG Rights Management

The online transcription is the same thing in both of my posts - it's a good transcription of the recording by The Clash (which is very good), but it sure ain't the Dr. John version.