Nowhere in a Hurry Blues (Steve Goodman) Miss Beverly Jones had a Ph. D. in Physics And she went to town to look for some work Everyplace she applied said she was qualified To be a secretary or a clerk The word got out on the day she was born But she was twenty years getting the news And a taste of that, "I don't know where I'm going But I'm going nowhere in a hurry," blues My friend Fred felt lucky last Tuesday So he took himself out to the track He was armed with a hot tip and a hundred dollar bill But that boy had to hitchhike back The horse that he bet on was leading all the way When it threw off on of its shoes That horse had the, "I don't know where I'm going But I'm going no where in a hurry," blues And I don't know where I'm going I don't know how long the journey will last I don't know where I'm going The future's one big mirror of the past And I've been losing so long, it looks like winning Kick me again and I'll come up grinning All my time is spent standing still Its the world that's going round so fast And it was on a Sunday morning About a hundred years ago The message came without warning Though everybody'd told him so The last thing General Custer said When he looked up and saw the Sioux Was, "I don't know where I'm going But I'm going no where in a hurry," blues The last thing Cleopatra said As that asp crawled up her boobs The last thing Adolph Eichmann said In that courtroom filled with Jews The last thing Marie Antoinette said As her head rolled toward her shoes Was you can eat the, "I don't know where I'm going But I'm going no where in a hurry," blues ________ Copyright Steve Goodman from the singing of Leslie Berman SOF
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