Old Man Cabbage

Between the graveyard and the railroad tracks

I live alone here in the shotgun shack

The kids walk past and they all look with fear

And I'm the only ghost in here

I tune into the radio

God I wish I had a bag of bones

So I can dance to the ragtime show

Well I got nobody but I still got soul

And I'm old man cabbage and you should know me well

Yeah I keep them all awake here when I scream and I yell

It sounds like

Unpacked my bags and moved in just last night

I'm just a traveler in need of a place to hide

And then I heard the whisper in my ear say

"I'm the only ghost in here"

It came through on the radio

So loud that it chilled my bones

The vaudeville and a ragtime show

I'm a young man livin' with an old man's soul now

That old man cabbage he was found here dead but

I still hear him singing while I'm lying in bed

He's singing

I'll take your body

I will take your hands

I'll wear your skin and I will make your plans

The man you were has all but disappeared

Now I'm still the only ghost in here

I tune into the radio

I turn it up and then I shake my bones

A vaudeville and a ragtime show

Still a young man livin' with an old man's soul now

I'm old man cabbage

I'm alive and well

Sent that young man singin' with the hounds of hell

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