《Guns Under the Counter》歌词

歌曲： Guns Under the Counter

所属专辑：Rehearsing My Choir

歌手： The Fiery Furnaces

时长： 04:33

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Guns Under the Counter[00:00:02]

Well good for you[00:00:03]

But we have something too[00:00:05]

So said my aunt[00:00:07]

A bowling alley and lunch counter[00:00:08]

Filled with fellas on their lunch break[00:00:10]

From the Western Electric plant at a slant across the street[00:00:12]

And next door when So and So's men would come in and the man himself very often[00:00:16]

It was guns under the counter every time[00:00:21]

Guns under the counter every time[00:00:24]

Guns under the counter every time[00:00:26]

And bowling on the second floor[00:00:28]

Very often he was there himself[00:00:31]

And I of course had a special small ball as a little girl[00:00:33]

And didn't I grow up didn't I grow up to be captain of the Morton girls bowling team I did[00:00:37]

Though I don't attach much importance to that now or then[00:00:43]

Then riding the old Garfield El downtown[00:00:46]

And on up to State Street[00:00:49]

And back to guns under the counter[00:00:50]

Guns under the counter every time[00:00:53]

Guns under the counter[00:00:55]

And bowling on the second floor[00:00:57]

I never liked Douglas park[00:01:12]

And no one likes it now[00:01:14]

But that's neither here nor there[00:01:15]

There or here[00:01:18]

West of Crawford where it is I stayed[00:01:19]

Chicago straights alliterates[00:01:22]

North and south[00:01:24]

I lived in the Ms[00:01:25]

But it was down on the south side[00:01:27]

Dr Peter Pane and his brother had their doughnut factory[00:01:30]

And I mention it now because[00:01:33]

That one day[00:01:35]

Now I wasn't there we were in Davenport at that time[00:01:36]

Some north side Irish bullets came zipping through that window[00:01:40]

In Cicero[00:01:44]

Never stand at a window[00:01:45]

And past the counter[00:01:47]

Looking for those men[00:01:48]

Who had their guns behind the counter[00:01:50]

And you could smell the boiled cabbage on those bullets[00:01:52]

One of them managed to hit a young pinsetter in the leg[00:01:55]

Wouldn't you know it[00:01:58]

But luckily Panagoulis[00:02:00]

Dr Peter Pane[00:02:01]

Was there to see to it[00:02:03]

He took some special blackberry filling right out of his lunch bag[00:02:04]

And applied it to the young man's wound[00:02:07]

You see Dr Peter Pane was an interesting man[00:02:10]

And an even more interesting doctor[00:02:12]

As he would use no material or remedy that wasn't used in the manufacture[00:02:14]

Of his doughnuts down on 82nd and Kedzie with his brother[00:02:17]

But he tempered this by the fact that he would rarely use ingredients[00:02:21]

That didn't have some medicinal purpose[00:02:24]

Or so he thought[00:02:26]

Here in the doughnut factory[00:02:28]

They have confectioner's sugar[00:02:30]

So sweet it was caustic[00:02:31]

And chocolate so bitter that it could kill typhus[00:02:34]

Glazing so shiny[00:02:37]

It could set back glaucoma[00:02:39]

And filling so filling[00:02:41]

You didn't need stitches[00:02:43]

The same special blackberry filling that was applied to the young man's wound[00:02:47]

Blackberry filling that came straight from Dr Peter Pane's lunch bag[00:02:52]

We were in Davenport[00:03:32]

With a big restaurant downtown[00:03:33]

And I once kept a jackrabbit in the back yard[00:03:36]

And I'd walk across the river to Rock Island to Greek school[00:03:39]

On a fine fall day[00:03:43]

And I'd look up at the sky[00:03:48]

And down at the river[00:03:52]

But Davenport changed its name to Hooverville[00:03:56]

So to speak and we had to go to Chicago to move in with my aunt[00:04:00]