Summer Painter-Bill Callahan

[00:24.18]I painted names boats on for a summer [00:30.69] [00:35.00]For luck, you keep the same first letter [00:37.87] [00:45.09]You don’t want, you don’t want, you don’t want bad luck at sea [00:52.22] [01:06.40]Rich Man’s Folly and Poor Man’s Dream [01:09.62] [01:11.24]I painted these while beavers built dams all around me [01:23.63] [01:37.24]And come September, come Fall [01:41.06] [01:41.61]Holding a job was not believable behavior at all, so I split [01:48.52] [01:50.68]beaver like a But is a dam builder, you never really quit [01:55.53] [01:57.96]made some I dough and I socked it away [02:02.15] [02:02.84]I always said for a rainy day [02:05.71] [02:08.22]I truly never knew who I was working for anyway [02:15.16] [02:18.48]The rich or the poor? [02:20.54] [02:23.39]Who am I working for? [02:26.35] [02:28.72]The rich or the poor? [02:30.96] [02:39.08]When the hurricane hit [02:41.20]Some found it suspicious that I’d just since left the frame [02:45.85] [02:49.11]Like all that time spent down by the water [02:52.79]Had somehow given me control over the rain [02:57.09] [02:59.75]And some people say wrongly that I've wash things away [03:06.79] [03:14.40]I Guess got my rainy day [03:16.78] [03:37.31]Like a sorcerer’s cape! [03:41.42] [03:44.67]The rain ripped the lips [03:46.66]Off the mouth of the bay [03:49.47] [03:55.33]And rendered the eye [03:57.63] [04:00.33]And sleighted the hand [04:01.82]And tricked the land [04:03.39]the And air blew away [04:10.19] [04:22.47]Then came a quiet [04:25.10] [04:29.15]No one should know [04:32.89] [04:48.74]Rich Man’s Folly and Poor Man’s Dream [04:53.74]I’m painting while beavers build dams all around me