Vic Chesnutt - Ghetto Bells lyrics

Well, here's a little story
About Ghetto Bell's
Now, it must have been about, I
Don't know nineteen eighty err, um
I'm not exactly sure when but
You know, and, um
I wasn't veryhow would I say? "Ambitious"
I mean, I did, I did, I did twinkle a bit
I would say my, uh, whatever
My parents gave me, i did twinkle a bit

But, um, well anyway, I
Found myself homeless
But, I only made like two
Hundred dollars a month from
Welfare and so I was taking
That money and mostly
Da-rinking it! And, uh, so anyway
I did have a van

Now, where I used to live, you see
There was a
Grocery store in the, well, how would I say
Not the best part of town it
Was a locally own grocery
Store and they owned a couple
Of grocery stores the name
Of it was Bell's so anyway the
One in the good part
Of town was called Yuppie Bell's
I didn't shop there

So anyway, i used to always go into the
Ghetto Bell's to get my thirty
Cent loaf of bread and I would
Shop lift a turkey ham yeah
I shoplifted turkey hall

But anyway, I found myself homeless
And so I lived in Ghetto Bell's parking lot
For about four months, in my van i used
To say that the payphone was my
Office and I told everybody
That after four in the morning
If you want me, you know where I am
So, anyway
They closed Ghetto Bell's they shut it down i
Couldn't believe it they were
Gonna close Ghetto
Bell's they were closing Ghetto
Bell's they said it
Was because too many people were shoplifting

Damn, man i loved Ghetto Bell's!
I can't believe that
My dirty little dealings shut
That place down, man

That's a lot of damn turkey ham!

I guess there’s a moral to this
Story it’s pretty easy to see
I must say pretty darn easy to see!