Madonna With Child Nineteen Sixty Nine Lyrics - Guy Clark

Oh the beautiful red-haired 

Madonna with child 

Sat on the curb wearin' a smile 

That doubled up the years 

And trebled the miles 

And comforts the babe 

In the softest of style 

She work up in San Francisco 

On the day she turned 16 

Haight St. was somethin' then 

Hey man you should have seen 

And she took up with this drummer 

In some goodtime Texas scene 

And she loved him till the day they 

Shipped him back home to Killeen 

She said she danced up in North Beach 

When the need arose 

She tryin' to start a little trade 

Of makin' people clothes 

To feed the child and pay the rent 

And everybody knows 

She a little hard for 21 

But that's the way she goes 

She's livin' on next to nothin' 

And memories from the past just a fading flower child 

Tryin' to make it last 

She got answers to some questions 

I would not dare to ask 

Survival never graceful 

When the changes come that fast