23rd Street Runs Into Heaven Lyrics & Chords By Kenneth Patchen

I am a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through this world of woe, There's no sickness, no toil or danger In that bright land to which I go. I'm going there to see my...read more

Now it’s jazz, the place is roaring, all beautiful girls in there, one mad brunette at the bar drunk with her boys. One strange chick I remember from somewhere, wearing a...read more

America America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing America, two dollars and twenty seven cents January 17, 1956 I can't stand my own mind America when will we...read more

The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death. ...read more

When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay ...read more