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Jones Screamed.
A song written by Paul Hall in a 300 year old squatted stable boy's room on the Rue Mouftard on the Left Bank of Paris near Place Monge, Summer of 1980. (c) 1987.
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Mister Jones,
there has been a great depression.
There is no money anymore.
Your millions
have just vanished.
The people
think you are
a bore.
"Get out of here,
you are useless,"
his boss said,
"let your wife
become a whore.
Jones, will you
leave the office?
Just let me
show you
to the door."
Jones screamed,
but that's
the saddest song
I must have
ever heard.
No, he did not
sing the music.
He didn't even
say a word.
You know,
the pressure
of today's society
has gotten
to be quite absurd
Jones screamed
but that's the saddest song
I must have ever heard.
The saddest song
The saddest song
the saddest song
I must have ever heard.
"Live each day
as it comes, my son."
The wise man
said to me.
"Oh, you may not be
a rich man
but at least
you will be free."
Jones was standing
on his pent house wall
I was standing
on the street.
I heard him
as he sang
that song,
the moment
he
did leap.
He only screamed
but that's the saddest song
I must have ever heard.
The saddest song
I must have ever heard.
Mister Jones,
why did you not
give it all away
while you
had the chance?
Instead of learning
how to give it all away,
he learned
a pointless
death dance.
A man's life
sure is never in
whatever he might possess,
because the day
Jones lost his riches,
that was the day
he
found his death.
He just screamed
but that's
the saddest song
I must have
ever heard.
The saddest song
I must have ever heard.
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Copyright and Phonorecord (c) (p) 1987 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.