Laurie Anderson - Three Walking Songs (for Tape Bow Violin) lyrics

I saw an man on the Bowery
And he was wearing ancient
Greasy clothes and brand-new bright white
Socks and no shoes
Instead, he was standing on two
Small pieces of plywood and
As he moved along the block, he bent down
Moved one of the pieces slightly
Ahead and stepped on it
Then he moved the other piece slightly
Ahead and stepped on it

There are Eskimos who live above
The timberline there's no
Wood for the runners on
Their sleds so instead
They use long frozen fish which
They attach to the bottoms of their sleds to
Slip across the snow

I saw a photograph of Tesla
Who invented the Tesla coil he also
Invented a pair of shoes
With soles four inches thick to
Ground him while he
Worked in the laboratory in this picture
Tesla is sitting in his lab, wearing
The shoes, and reading a book by
The light of the long
Streamer-like sparks shooting out
Of his transformers