from SAN FRANCISCO BLUES

13

This pretty white city

On the other side of the country

Will no longer be

Available to me

I saw heaven move

Said ‘This is the end’

Because I was tired

of all that portend

And any time you need

me

Call

I’ll be at the other

end

Waiting

at the final wall

14

San Francisco Blues

Written in a rocking chair

In the Cameo Hotel

San Francisco Skid row

Nineteen Fifty Four

1957