BARRY & THE BOOMERS
Chapter 1
Madison Square Garden 2015
Eighteen th
Lyrics
I’ve always been a troubadour, whatever that is worth.
I’ll be a man of song as long as I am on this earth.
I sing about the good times and the times I did some good.
I sing a song of good old friends from my old neighborhood.
I sing about a magic land I pictured as a child,
And rowdy, rockin’ parties in the days when I was wild.
I sing about the tragedies that changed my life so much.
I sing about the women who sustained me with their touch.
I sing about my hometown and some places far away -
About the times I had to leave and times I had to stay.
I sing of lovers’ sorrow as they say their last goodbye.
I sing about the soldiers who are all too young to die.
I sing about the winds of fate and how they always shift.
I sing about the drifters and the dreams that make them drift.
I sing about a friend I lost to whiskey and cocaine,
And sing about the homeless man who did his best in vain.
I sing the songs of needy nights - the times I fell apart,
And songs of love from long ago that still upset my heart.
I’m what I am no matter if it’s good or right or wrong -
A troubadour, a balladeer, a simple man of song.
