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Grab your toys kids and grab your clothes
We gotta go, we gotta go
Maybe to the shelter, maybe to my mom’s
I don’t know, I don’t know
Sheriff at the front door armed for a war
A platoon of men in a moving van
Grab what you can, leave the rest behind
We’re gettin’ evicted

You’re gonna have to change schools again and find new friends
We’ll make do, we’ll make do
I couldn’t pay the gas bill, couldn’t pay for heat
Now our stuff is on the street, our life is on the street
The place was a mess, the pipes were clogged and stuck
I slave for my pay just to give it all up
The landlord drives up in her fancy truck
We’re gettin’ evicted

Now my kids are hungry and my kids are cold
I can’t sleep, I can’t sleep
Seen seventy places full of cracks and mold
Denied each time, denied each time
Man at the last place dangles the key
Says maybe we can have it if he can have me

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from It Doesn't Matter Why It Is, It Doesn't Matter If It's Wrong IV, released October 23, 2020
written & recorded by John Elliott

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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.”

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