Happy Man

Used to be a citadel

But now I'm just rolling down the river

Seven sons and daughters

Rocking on their daddy's knee

But the devil and the angel by the jukebox

Laid a wager

I was a happy man

Then they made a mess of me

Used to have my hedges

& my union workers in the fields

Up here came a banker

& he crushed me with a broke back loan

Said the devil to the smiling angel

Get your big spiked heels

Let's take a happy man

Run him out of house and home

Water turns the corner

& the clouds say were in for bad weather

I see rabbits running

As the water laps along the shore

Said the devil to the blue light angel

Don't get any better

Take a happy man

Float him off to Baltimore

Used to have an upright life

But now I'm rushing down the river

Been thinking 'bout my family

& the money & eternity

The devil and the jukebox angel

Heard they moved in together

I am a happy man

Happy as a man can be

There goes a happy man

Rolling out to open sea

© Chris LeRoy 2011 Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP