The Green Pajamas

Riverfull Of Reasons


She used to live on a blue canoe in Texas
Pulled downstream by the afterlife of Saigon's moon
Eats green papaya Aunt Jemima breakfast
Tastes the salt and blood from the womb of the war

She sang a tune called Monday's Moon of Venus
And Tuesday's blues are crooning out of the afternoon
I met a man with the crystal lungs of Jesus
This woman has a riverfull of reasons

She always takes a salty drink with her peanuts
Slow boat now that would low float down the lazy riverside
In a war of drugs and dreams to be left with
Her final years on the riverbanks of Texas

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by Eric Lichter
(c) 1999 Eric Lichter BMI