Story Behind The Song
it's not a pretty one, full of deceipt and bad decisions but ultimately this song sings the praises of the renegade and how its better to deal with your hand than try to cheat to get out of what's comin to you and sleeping with a clean conscience
Song Description
a true story about the trials and tribs of getting busted in Boston for selling weed
| Song Length |
2:53 |
Genre |
Blues - Chicago, Blues - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Disturbed, Annoyed |
Subject |
Freedom, Philosophy |
| Similar Artists |
Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1950 - 1959 |
| |
Lyrics
I got greenleaf, i got greenleaf all in bails (x2)
When the snitch man tell em bout me, they throwed my ass in jail
I spent a cold hard night on the boston city drunk tank floor (x2)
don't want to use no roll of toilet paper for a pillow no more
well I want to go to bridgewater where the jailer knows my name
me and his younger brother seen him play in a softball game
but it's for sycophants and deviants, I'll go to county just the same
now i'm in plymouth county 12 miles from where the pilgrims came
where the pioneers and the settlers put them red coat boys to shame
i got greenleaf and they tryin to put me down
now i'm in shackles goin to Quincy, i guess I'll see you around (x2)
that mean old greenleaf i been smokin' since i was nine
well they gave me 16 months in the cooler now i gots to do my time (x3)