The Bum Hotel

歌詞

I rented a room in a bum hotel, shame and disgrace Ain't got thar to pack my trunk, I moved to another place I never saw the like before, since the day that I was born The lot of tramps come in this city and a whole lot more this morn There's an old maid lives up stairs, and a dude that puts on airs There's two that fights like cats and dogs Next room to me, but one, there's a fiddler and his son Teaching two old maids to dance the clog The other night while napping, not dreaming of a dance They broke right in to my room and got my coat and pants They even took the bedcoat and sneaked away like mice And when I woke up from my dream, I'se hit three times or twice I was full of aches and pains, I called for help in vain Someone heard me, thought there was a fight They broke right down the door, took the carpet from the floor I slept in a room without a bed that night The other day I was almost starved, I attempted for to steel I went and nabbed the landlord, for enough to buy a meal He sent me to the kitchen and said I was a beet But when I looked upon that table, I'll be darned if I could eat There was two tramps on the floor, and a pig behind the door In the corner a busy chicken coop There was insects in the air, and the butter had red hair And the children they were playing in the soup