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It Doesn't Matter Why It Is, It Doesn't Matter If It's Wrong

by John Elliott

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From just outside of Birmingham, a man named Wallace Green He’s got a dog he loves who loves him back And a pick-up painted green Been in the desert for four years On probation for four months He’s got a lawyer from the state who’s always late And he’s got some land back home But he won’t get back to it And he won’t see the sun again When they take him in and they get a closer look Wallace came out west to meet a girl Took his time along the way She was thinner in her picture, he decided he should stay Taught her children to be proud Cleaned ‘em up and set ‘em straight Gave ‘em something to believe, filled up their plates But all the men he met didn’t treat him with respect They called him slow, they made him mean And Wallace Green says: “It doesn’t matter why it is, it doesn’t matter if it’s wrong It only matters that it is and it’s been goin’ on a bit too long.” There’s only so much that a man can take before he breaks It happened one night, it happened so fast Wallace don’t remember what went down He knows he heard a buzzin’ sound And he woke up next to dead tied to a hospital bed With four felonies to his name It’s a dirty game and he got a piece of it That dog was desperate when he found her Hunger sick and danger thin Almost gone, he cleaned her up, washed off the blood And took her in Wallace learned to love her quick Gave her a name he thought would stick He lets her out, she feeds herself, she leaves the bones And every night back home she’s sleepin’ at his feet It’s all that either of them needs It’s a perfect scene But it’s over now for Wallace Green He was out on bail when he found That his dog was in the pound He had a week to get some cash Or they were gonna put her down He called his ma hopin’ that she could help him out She had some money down south, she went it west And Wallace said it’s good she did ‘Cause he’d come after who killed her if they did And he’d hurt him hard He wouldn’t laugh or frown He’d hunt him and he’d bring him down Take the body back to town Put it in his pick-up truck Prop it up and drive it around ‘Cause it doesn’t matter why it is and it doesn’t matter if it’s wrong It only matters that it is and it’s been goin’ on a bit too long

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“It Doesn’t Matter Why It Is, It Doesn’t Matter If It’s Wrong” was released in 2008. It is the first installment in an ongoing series of loosely related, quadrennial recordings that are released during presidential election years in the United States. More information on the series is here: www.thehereafterishere.com/itdoesntmatterwhyitisitdoesntmatterifitswrong.

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released July 21, 2008

All songs written and recorded by John Elliott 2008 (BMI).

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John Elliott San Francisco, California

“John Elliott is the Andy Kaufman of folk music.”

“Post Seinfeld, Post 9/11 Eyebrow Rock.”

“Well crafted and artful songs by a potentially disturbed individual.”

Singer/songcyclist.
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