Ugly Beggar

 

Please Mr. won't you help a sister?
Who is sorely in need...
I'm really hungry..
and feeling kinda funny...
Won't ya give me money?
To help quiet this
rumble in my tummy?

Ya see I ain't never see a lucky day my whole life...
I ain't like them rich ole ladies that go
Under the knife...
I make do with what the Lord done gave me...
Baby just cause I live on the street...
That don't make me crazy...

I've just had a long run of bad luck...
Fell a couple of times in the gutter
and almost got stuck...
Been walking these streets so long...
Seems like an eternity...

Yet I am hopeful it will end soon!
Oh Mister, please won't you mister, have some mercy on me...
Just a few more bits of silver and I can buy
A ticket to the moon!
I'm just an ugly beggar please have some charity...
My eyes are dirty but I still have some clarity...