Bowery - Bill Callahan

My grandfather died

A Bowery (bum?)

My grandfather died

Son of an Irishman

On the Bowery

Oh on the Bowery

My father tried

To find his bones

And to his trials I added my own

My grandfather left

My father twice

Second time was on his wife’s advice

Straight back to the Bowery

Straight back to the Bowery

Well I’m new here.

Where can a fella eat?

I’m new here.

Where can a fella sleep?

I’m new here, and I’ve got a pit in my gut

On the Bowery

On the Bowery

And when he came up from the river of methadone

He took his last breath on the Bowery

He took his last breath on the Bowery