this is a mostly true story from my childhood, true enough that it makes my older sisters laugh to hear it. I added in a couple verses about the teenagers at a section 8 apartment complex I worked at in my twenties.
lyrics
Bad Kids and they won't do right,
Underneath the staircase shootin' dice,
Passin' 'round a bottle and a big ole spliff,
Shoutin' baby can I git a hit?
Bad Kids in the the dead of night,
Stealin' wallets, stealin' ten-speed bikes,
Walkin' down the street carryin' huntin' knifes,
Carvin' their names in trees.
One day I heard somebody scream,
Peered out the screen door, so as not to be seen,
I figured those bad kids must have been pretty mean,
Because they covered Julio's face in shaving cream
I spied em, up on the roof,
The ringleader and his little brother too,
Thowin stones at the passersby,
Somebody's gonna lose an eye,
B. Why should I fix that gate?
So they can take off the hinge again,
Breakin' rules, Skippin' school.
They're headin' for a life of sin.
It was a rough patch right on the tracks,
If you waved at the train,
the conductor waved back,
All them little kiddies playin' snakes in the grass will never forget that day,
When those bad kids, the ones that was always doin' wrong broke in the window of the old folks home,
Scalin' up the all on a factory pallet,
Bustin' up the bricks with a croquette mallet,
Bad kids in the afternoon,
We heard police sirens soon,
Cops caught wind, and they caught the train,
And we never saw those bad kids again,
No,
We never saw those bad kids again.
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