Heaven Help The Child-Bill Callahan

[00:00.411]Bill Callahan -Heaven Help The Child [00:05.681]Nineteen-twelve in New York [00:10.698]Took a walk up to Park Avenue to sip some brew [00:17.412]With my good friend Maggie the Bohemian [00:29.70]Lord she was quite the woman of the world [00:33.22]I was the envy of all the men [00:40.212]Heaven help the child [00:45.75]Heaven help the child [00:49.886]Paris in the twenties it can offer plenty [00:57.937]To a young man with a vision so they say [01:08.77]With a friend named Fitzgerald [01:11.821]I was headed for the old world [01:16.877]On a merchant steamer bound for Biscay Bay [01:28.472]Heaven help the child [01:33.292]Heaven help the child [01:37.193]Take him back to where he's never been [01:52.825]We're all building walls [01:55.658]They should be bridges [02:02.341]We're all building walls [02:04.573]They should be bridges [02:10.553]Nothing like a freight train get you to a city [02:14.598]Pick another sad song for me Jim [02:19.739]Hate to leave the ol'man all alone to work the cotton [02:23.838]But the country never seemed to bother him [02:29.867]Heaven help the child [02:34.722]Heaven help the child [02:38.370]Take us back to where we have never been [02:52.87]War is hell to live with I said to the General [02:59.880]As we made the battle plans out for the day [03:08.296]This will be the last one only God be willin' [03:17.269]We will go back home this time to stay [03:50.276]So if old acquaintance be forgotten [03:57.820]And never brought to mind [04:06.340]Let's sip a cup of kindness [04:13.713]For my friends today's gone by