Lonely Street Kansas

Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street
Well, it sure don't seem like it’s been twenty years
Since I went walking down this lonely street
And the smell of perfumed ladies filled the air, yeah

This street ain't got no name, dead end is in the river
And I lived where I hated life day by day
There wasn't nothing I could do to shake a cold night shiver
'Cause to move up lonely street you had to have some say

Gambling is bad luck down on lonely street
And it sure ain't no place to be when a man gets sore
You know I killed a man and I paid all I can
With twenty years on a chain gang
For the flesh and the blood on that jailhouse floor

Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street
I get caught up in a dream that won't let me go
And as the bright lights flash up and down this lonely street
My mind rolls back the years long time ago

I see my baby stumblin' round with tears in her eyes
And as I reach out for her she falls on the floor
She mumbles through bloody lips about a black man, robber, raper
And in my gut I know I got one to score
Take it baby!!
Ohhhhh yeah!!