(Shel Silverstein - Jim Casey)      On a stone cold night in Memphis Willie Harper came to town   With a blue tick hound at his heels and a dime in his shoe   Uh he could make that guitar sing   You should have heard that pavement ring   When Blind Willie Harper played the blues.      And a-he'd sing hey Jenny, why'd you go and leave me   All alone in the dark this way   Hey Jenny, why'd you go and leave with me   With these blind man dues to pay and these blues to play.      In the scarlet light of Beal Street Willie Harper found a home   A any song you name he don't refuse   Sweet or dirty white or black just drop a nickel in the hat   And hear Blind Willie Harper play the blues.      And a-he'd sing hey Jenny why'd you go and leave me   All alone in the dark this way   Hey Jenny, why'd you go and leave with me   With these blind man dues to pay and these blues to play.      Willie stops in the middle of the song as a love dealin' lady walks by   He says a you smell sweet like someone I once knew   Then he touches her face and some words are said   And a knife blade shines and her blood runs red   Blind Willie walks off singin' the blues.      On a stone cold night in Memphis they took Blind Willie down   They shaved his head took away his shoes   Now from a window of a Beal Street jail cell   Sad as a whipperwill clear as a bell   We heard Blind Willie Harper singin' the blues.      And a-he'd sing hey Jenny why'd you go and leave me   All alone in the dark this way   Hey Jenny, why'd you go and leave with me   With these blind man dues to pay and these blues to play...