[ti:I'm Out To Get]
[ar:Billy Bragg]
[al:Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions]
[offset:0]
[00:00.54]I'm out to get your greenback dollar
[00:04.94]
[00:05.71]I'm out to get your silver change
[00:09.62]
[00:10.97]I'm out to get your long black limo
[00:14.92]
[00:16.05]You kept me down on my knees too long
[00:19.76]
[00:21.05]Now my daddy before me  he worked like I work
[00:25.10]
[00:25.95]He was worked to death forty years or so
[00:29.73]
[00:31.07]Now my mama she died from grieving over him
[00:35.42]
[00:36.22]How old she was I never did know
[00:40.21]
[00:41.19]I'm out to get your greenback dollar
[00:45.26]
[00:46.43]I'm out to get your silver change
[00:50.27]
[00:51.41]I'm out to get your long black limo
[00:55.46]
[00:56.66]You kept me down on my knees too long
[01:00.09]
[01:01.53]Now the building you own you won at gambling
[01:05.69]
[01:06.52]On dice and horses and ticker-tape machines
[01:10.28]
[01:11.81]But that's no sign that you are smarter than I am
[01:16.19]
[01:16.80]I'm going to show you just what I mean
[01:20.44]
[01:21.69]I'm out to get your easy money
[01:25.64]
[01:26.95]I'm out to get my share of your gold
[01:30.95]
[01:31.95]I'm out to get my whiskey and women
[01:37.13]I'm going to get back my life you stole
[01:40.90]
[01:42.05]Now I went to the judge
[01:43.35]
[01:44.49]And I talked with the tenants
[01:46.46]
[01:47.35]We told him we had no hot water in the sink
[01:50.80]
[01:52.20]He spent a half an hour upon his bench there
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[01:57.50]To tell us what a fine reputation our landlord's got
[02:01.54]
[02:02.43]But I'm out to get your long green tender
[02:06.67]
[02:07.57]I'm out to get your round town car
[02:11.86]
[02:12.56]I'm out to fight and win a good job and wages
[02:16.66]
[02:17.49]And a six room twin bed flat with a built in bar
[02:21.58]
[02:22.76]Now I told that judge how you played the horses
[02:26.97]
[02:27.80]How you won this apartment building here
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[02:33.08]How you took our money and headed to Florida
[02:37.67]
[02:38.42]To lay in the sun with women while we freeze here
[02:42.56]
[02:43.53]So  I'm out to get your excess bacon
[02:48.01]
[02:48.71]I'm out to get my cut from you
[02:52.43]
[02:53.57]I'm going to walk and talk and tell all my neighbors
[02:58.78]How they ought to talk right up for their cut too
[03:02.59]
[03:03.91]It won't be with no gun nor gambling wheel sir
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[03:09.07]That I will use to relieve you of your till
[03:12.74]
[03:14.17]It will be in a nice friendly way with all my neighbors
[03:18.65]
[03:19.40]Smelling and barking brother up and down your hill
[03:23.49]
[03:24.57]And you can't hide along no oceans
[03:28.82]
[03:29.46]And you can't hide in no desert for long
[03:33.18]
[03:34.17]We're out to get back
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[03:36.52]Every penny that you won gambling
[03:38.89]
[03:39.58]Because we can't live  landlord  on a race horse song
[03:43.42]
[03:44.40]Because we can't live  landlord  on a race horse song
[03:48.73]I'm Out To Get - Billy Bragg