Living In The Future Lyrics - Live - John Prine

(Originally named "Jumpin Jehosaphat") 

Jehosaphat the mongrel cat 

Jumped off the roof today 

Some would say he fell but I could tell 

He did himself away 

His eyes weren't bright like they were the night 

We played checkers on the train 

God Bless his soul he was a tootsie roll 

But he's a dead cat just the same 

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Chorus: 

We are living in the future 

I'll tell you how I know 

I read it in the paper 

Fifteen years ago 

We're all driving rocket ships 

And talking with our minds 

And wearing turquoise jewelry 

And standing in soup lines 

We are standing in soup lines 

Jake the barber's lonely daughter 

Went down to her daddy's shop 

She plugged herself to a barber pole 

And took a little off the top 

Pressure on the left. Pressure on the right 

Pressure in the middle of the hole 

I'm goin' to Maine on a forty foot crane 

I'm gonna use it for a fishin' pole 

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Repeat Chorus 

Old Sarah Brown sells tickets down 

At the all night picture show 

Where they grind out sex 

And they rate it with an "X" 

Just to make a young man's pants grow 

No tops no bottoms just hands and feet 

Screaming the posters out on the street 

Strangling the curious and the weak 

We give 'em what they want to see - O 

Repeat Chorus