Good Old Guy - Michael Bloomfield

He was small and he was hungry

He had so many words to say

He came in from off the corner

Where some man told him to stay.

His head hung down, his eyes was driftin'

But they saw everything so clear

He was cool and he didn’t have nuthin'

Never showed a sign of fear.

He didn’t talk to very many

He mostly kept to his self

He was shy and pretty funny

Stayed awhile and then he left.

A few days past is when I saw him

He’d nod to me and I would smile

I think he asked me, «Whoa, Mike, what’s happenin' «I said, «Set down and talk awhile.»

Well he set down and he started rappin'

Everything he said, those words was true

He told of people and the madness

Of the fools and the things they do.

He said:

Some men have lived and learned through living

Some men have learned by seein' true

You cannot judge from what they’re sayin'

It’s real clear from what they do.

He got up, said he felt silly

Said he’d been talkin' a little to long

He did not know his own self truly

Said his right could be my wrong.

I didn’t see him till way, way later

It was all different and he’d not changed

He was small and he looked hungry

I was tired and it’s all so strange.