Blackpatch

                                  Invitations to my party

Send Jones an inviting card

He got his mean streak from the gutter

Got his kindness from God



Now tugboats paint the river

Carry coal to the city and white dock liners

Happiness on the uptown side

Of my party in the morning tide



Ooh la la la blackpatch

Ooh la la la blackpatch

In blackpatch, in blackpatch.



Clothes spin on washropes

Window to window tie

Socks and bells and nightgowns

Tassels in the morning sky.



People all ready, ready

Ready ready,

Ready ready,

Ready ready,

I've been trying, I've been thinking

I've been trying, I've been thinking.



Womanchild on the side street

Flashing in blackpatch

Lipstick on a reefer

Waiting For a match