HOMELESSMAN / THE SAGA

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    HOMELESSMAN / THE SAGA

    I CAME UP ON A MAN ONE DAY,
     AND I SAW HIS TREMBLING HANDS
    HE LOOKED AT ME,ASKED FOR A DIME
        HELD UP HIS EMPTY CAN
    SEE NOW I JUST KEPT ON WALKING BY,
    BUT HIS GAZE IT HELD MY EYES
     IT WAS THEN I STARTED THINKING,
      AND BEGAN TO REALIZE
     THAT THOSE EYES OF HIS WERE MINE,
      NOT SO LONG AGO
    IT WAS WHEN MY WIFE OF TWENTY YEARS
     SAID IT WAS TIME TO GO

    THOUGH THE LONLINESS AND SADNESS
     AND THE ANGER AND SORROW
    I GOT SO LOST IN MY DRINKING
    I COULDN'T FIND A TOMORROW
    SO I TURNED AROUND WENT INTO THE STORE
    I BOUGHT A COFFEE AND TWO BEERS
    I SAT RIGHT DOWN NEXT TO THE MAN
     I REACHED OVER AND SAID HERE
    HE SAID NOW THANK YOU SON AND IF YOU DON'T MIND,
    AS HE REACHED BEHIND HIS EAR
    I SHOOK MY HEAD,HE LIT HIS SMOKE
     HE REACHED OVER AND LIT MINE
    HE SAID SON YOU MAY NOT KNOW OF ME
    I'M JUST A USED TO BE
    THEY SAID I'D BE A LEGEND
    A FADING ECHO IN MY MEMORY

    HE SAID NOW I'M A HOMELESS MAN
    I JUST A USED TO BE
    I'M A HOMELESS MAN AND I DRINK MY BEER,I GET DRUNK IN AGONY
    HE SAID NOW I'M A HOMELESS MAN ,
    BUT I USED TO BE THE KING
    BUT FROM USING DRUGS AND DRINKING THIS,
    SEE I LOST EVERYTHING
    HE SAID NOW I'M A HOMELESSMAN
    I'M JUST A USED TO BE
    THEY SAID I'D BE A LEGEND,
    A FADING ECHO IN  MY MEMORY
      HOMELESSMAN YEAH,HOMELESSMAN

    HE SAID ME AND THAT GUITAR OF MINE
    WE'VEBEEN THROUGH THIS WHOLE COUNTRY
    FROM PHILADELPHIA TO L.A.
    LAS VEGAS I HAVE SEEN
    WELL DOWN IN TEXAS AND ALABAMA
    WELL IN NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS
    BUT IT WAS IN THE EARLY TIMES
    I STARTED DRINKING EVERYDAY
    I MET THAT GORGOUS LADY
    I JUST NEW I WAS ON MY WAY
    THOUGH THE BRIGHTLIGHTS N'THE CITIES
    I'D FORGOTTEN HOW TO PRAY
    I STARTED USING COCAINE
    STICKING NEEDLES IN MY ARM
    EVERYONE WAS DOING IT
    I DID'NT SEE THE HARM
    UNTIL ONE NIGHT THAT GAL SHE UP
    AND DIED
    THATS WHEN I LOST THE FIGHT
    AND SOON FROM USING DRUGS AND DRINKING THIS
    I LOST EVERYTHING IN SIGHT

    HE SAID NOW I'M A HOMELESSMAN
    JUST A USED TO BE
    A HOMELESSMAN AND I DRINK MY BEER
    I GET DRUNK IN AGONY
    HE SAID I'M JUST A HOMELESSMAN
    BUT I USED TO BE THE KING
    BUT FROM USING DRUGS AND DRINKING THIS
    SEE I LOST EVERYTHING
    HE SAID NOW I'M A HOMELESSMAN
    I'M JUST A USED TO BE
    THEY SAID I'D BE A LEGEND
    A FADING ECHO IN MEMORY
    YEAH, HOMELESS MAN
    NOW,NOW I'M JUST A HOMELESS MAN
      I'M JUST A HOMELESS MAN
               WRITTEN BY
         WILLIAM H.KYTTLE JR.

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    photogirl commented on HOMELESSMAN / THE SAGA

    08-05-2009

    Hi Billy 28, I finally return to this site and read your poem. this is so touching and seems like the kind of lyrics and rhythm to be a song. Realy nice and thought provoking! I look forward to read the others!! I will be posting a new one soon-hope you and others check it out. Oh,...now I read your reply to other comment and find out it IS a song you recorded-nice job! I have one similar part true/part fiction that I am chicken to post.
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    BILLY28

    08/06/2009

    Dear Photogirl Thank you so, I have been away from the board myself. Yes it is a song, I have been so called homeless and now I am doing some ministry work to help others.People are not just in that situation because of drugs and booze. It is amazing what some of these people really once were. Iread some more of yours this weekend,OK Thanks again and BLESS YOU

    BILLY28

    08/10/2009

    Dear Photogirl, Don't be shy,just go for it, you have nothing to lose and your holding out on the world and yourself by not sharing. I ( USED TO BE) afraid,scared on insucure whatever till I started sharing but then others who feel the same way find the courage to share there work whatever it may be and we all benifit, RIGHT? my friend I look forward to reading this new one in the near futre. Billy28

    GentleT commented on HOMELESSMAN / THE SAGA

    08-04-2009

    Your poem is very lyrical. It tell a story of how someones dreams has fallen.
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    BILLY28

    08/06/2009

    Thank you , G.T. I will read some more of yours this weekend , Been a bit busy. Thanks again, BLESS YOU

    optimistic commented on HOMELESSMAN / THE SAGA

    07-24-2009

    Very well written this kept my interest, in your point of view I thought this really had a poetry style to it was this a true story? I hope I don't get put in that predicament. Some of my poem like Understand me I wrote in 2000 or before that, some are new this is great I like the line a fading echo in memory, very intriguing.
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    BILLY28

    07/25/2009

    Good morn,optimistic Thank you very much,Homeless man is part true and part fiction.some of it is about myselfand some is fantasy.This is also a song I recorded a little more than a year ago. at that time I had no idea that my butt would end up on the street but I have also learned and enjoyed meeting all kinds of people who are now in this same situation due to the recession and most of them loove this song so everything us good Thanks again, Billy28

    To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

    Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)

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