First Street Blues Lyrics - The N.s.v.i.p.'s (not So Very Important People) - Lee Hazlewood

Don Lowance, the man who plays guitar with me, and I 

Were born in a small town 

And we kinda think it was a different sort of small 

Town because in our town, we had a dragon and people 

Used to make up stories about the dragon 

Sinse the stories were made up most of them started: 

"Once upon a time, there was a very friendly dragon" 

Except people didn't have any way of knowing that the 

Dragon was friendly so they shot at him with guns and 

Threw rocks at him. And the dragon being a sort of a 

Poor sport, he ate a lot of those people up 

Now, the dragon was messing up their senses, something 

Fierce until one day he wandered into the store that 

Sold spirits, and after making a fast brunch of the 

Owner and four emplyees, he broke into this wine 

Barrel 

And that did it, from that day on the dragon was not 

Only a friendly dragon, he was a happy friendly dragon 

And now all he does is walk up and down the streets of 

Our small town and tap people on their shoulders and 

Ask them for a little change so he can buy some of that 

Stuff that he likes better than people 

Buddy can you spare a dime 

For a little glass of wine 

Buddy don't you pity me 

Just one drink then I'll be 

In a world all my own 

The only place I call home 

Where no hurt can get to me 

And no one but me can see 

Pretty flowers dance and sing 

Laughter is a common thing 

Where no hate has ever been 

'Cause I won't let it in 

By the warm purple flame 

Every little grape calls my name 

As it climbs on the fire 

And makes the fire burn higher 

Higher than it's ever been 

Time and space mean nothing then 

I fall about a mile or two 

So pardon me if I ask you 

Buddy can you spare a dime 

And that's the story of the little town that Don and I 

Was born in and our dragon, fairly strange story