[00:20.66]Big Joe Turner, Elmore James
[00:25.18]street survivor selling walking canes
[00:29.91]"Give your babies holy names for me"
[00:36.60]I don’t know, but I’ve been told
[00:40.82]you never grow up and you’ll never get old
[00:45.27]you can watch the world being bought and sold
[00:49.92]all on your T.V
[00:57.20]Sometimes it gets a little rough
[01:01.51]like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain
[01:06.3]better stand tall if you’re gonna stand at all
[01:10.74]and if you’re gonna fall, well you might as well fall
[01:16.97]build a house, honey make it home
[01:21.99]gonna make a place man where I can be alone
[01:26.62]don't the yard look pretty when it's overgrown?
[01:31.16]standing six feet tall
[01:34.95]this ain’t a riot but it’s a living
[01:40.49]you’ve got to take just what you are given
[01:44.96]cause luck only matters with the cards and the women
[01:49.48]and sometimes not at all
[01:57.10]sometimes it gets a little rough
[02:00.83]like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain
[02:05.13]better stand tall if you’re gonna stand at all
[02:09.46]and if you’re gonna fall well you might as well fall
[02:42.79]Peeping tom said to Madame Rose
[02:46.39]"I’ve seen you twice already without your clothes
[02:51.19]what I suggest, honey what I propose
[02:55.36]is that you see me without mine"
[02:59.52]tell John Henry and Cassius Clay
[03:04.03]swinging iron for a living is one hell of a way
[03:08.35]but whatever you do don’t let your hammer stray
[03:13.10]I believe we’ll be just fine
[03:20.89]sometimes it gets a little rough
[03:24.38]like the wheels made of steel going an uphill mountain
[03:29.17]stand tall if you’re gonna stand at all
[03:33.74]and if you’re gonna crawl well you might as well crawl
[03:40.15]Oh, you might as well crawl