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Thread #161380   Message #3834004
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Jan-17 - 08:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Soup Song (Maurice Sugar)
Subject: Lyr Add: Soup Song (Maurice Sugar)
Hmmm. I didn't find this one posted here. Another song so appropriate for Trump's Inauguration weekend, although Trump would probably object to the wasting of good soup on "freeloaders."

SOUP SONG
(Maurice Sugar)

I'm spending my nights at the flophouse,
I'm spending my days on the street,
I'm looking for work, but I find none,
I wish I had something to eat.

CHORUS
Soup, soup, they give me a bowl of soup;
Soup, soup, they give me a bowl of soup.

I spent twenty years in the factory,
I did ev'rything I was told,
They said I was loyal and faithful,
Now, even before I get old....

I saved fifteen bucks with my banker
To buy me a car and a yacht;
I went down to draw out my fortune,
And this is the answer I got:

I fought in the war for my country,
I went out to bleed and to die;
I thought that my country would help me,
But this was my country's reply:

I went on my knees to my Maker,
I prayed ev'ry night to the Lord;
I vowed I'd be meek and submissive,
And now I've received my reward:

Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

Source: Sing Out! Magazine, Vol 23, No 3 (1974), page 19.