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It's freezing and four in the morning It feels like it's 20 below I'm lying here waiting here for dawning Because I have no place to go I'd a man and a son and a daughter A car and a house with nice views He left us though he didn't oughter The kids cried and I took to booze.
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CHORUS Please sir, please sir, I just need a bed for the night, Tonight. Please sir, p~ease sir, I just need a bed for the night.• I soon lost my j ob and my housing So we stayed in a shelter all day We constantly needed delousing Then they took my poor babies away. My stay at the shelter was over I'd nothing but anguish and woe o I upped and came out to Vancouver ; didn't know where else to go.
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I found me a you ng handsome lover With two rooms and cash to his name It didn't take long to discover He wanted me out on the game So I went to a place on Cordova With a black eye, all tearful and meek. They said, 'We're full up, supper's over. Go elsewhere, and come back next week.
HORUS You shouldn't sleep out in Toronto It's too cold to sleep out in Moose Jaw it's unwise to sleep out in Prince Albert Tuktoyuktuk or Chibougamau. So Vancouver's the place we all comes to At least you can sleep in the day f olks think we're all druggies and bums, too Out most of us just lost our way
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CHORUS : rented a room in a hell-hole ~400 a month and quite small ;v1y neighbours were noisy and violent And the bathroom was way down the hall As housing, it just wasn't funny With crack-heads and bedbugs all day Out what else can you get fo r the money '!'hat welfare allows you to pay?
The shelters are fu ll, or they're useless And if you get a foot in the door Some watery soup and a sandwich And a mattress from midnight to four. You might think this song is depressing You might think it's all rather strange But instead of just sitting there stressing Let's al: work together for change 1
Gian Ward
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