I gave this song relating to the downtown ordinances, actually I wrote it for one particular spare-changer, to a couple of friends and they seemed to like it, so I’m posting it here.



This verse was extra...

SPARE VERSE
Got me a sweet smellin
Candi bag
a bookshop sack
turning to rags
a holey shoe
an awful hack

To Cooper Street
I keep coming back



...Here’s the lyrics:

Cooper’s Street -Robert Nahas

Got a quarter
Got a dime
I know what I’m sayin’s
an anti-social crime
but sweet honey
I need some money


on Cooper St.
got nothin to eat


Scraggly old weed poking through
the sidewalk’s crack
they sprayed some Round-up
but it keeps coming back

To Cooper St.
through that sidewalk crack

gentle people
you know me
I’d never hurt
nobody
my bladder’s bustin
I gots to pee

On Cooper’s St.
In Cooper’s St.

Mister Twister
Twisted Sister
Mr. Noddy
Lady Haughty
Rowdy rogues ranting
rhyth-mic-cal rhymes

On Cooper’s St.
It can’t be beat

bridge
hangin out on Cooper’s St.
lovin’ people are here to meet
everyone’s comin here to share
stories ‘bout going from here to there
hangin’ out on Cooper’s St.
everyone’s gonna get something to eat

sun comes up on the
political horizon
Council Treaty
most obliging
political prostitution
a fancy solution

To Cooper St.
I keep comin’ back
To Cooper’s St.