sidewalk annie

She told you about it 
Through her broken, bleeding windpipe
It shook your bones 
And made your life feel skintight

Sidewalk Annie
Now your coattails have come undone
Your whisper's a scream now
Since you don't speak to anyone

The howlin' winds could never care what she liked
Rhythm and Blues or A Stranger In The Night
It tore up the trailer with the sounds of Howlin' Wolf
The cellar was stone, even the garden was bulletproof

Sidewalk Annie
Now your coattails have come undone
Your whisper's a scream now
Since you don't speak to anyone

Little girl in your white ice skates
We've seen your face walking around the old school gates
With a hand on your hip and the other one on your head
You realized it wasn't gone, but lost instead

Sidewalk Annie
Now your coattails have come undone
Your whisper's a scream now
Since you don't speak to anyone

Invested a nickel into the banks of a wishing well
Blew out the candles 
And hoped for something that she could
She could sell

Sidewalk Annie
Now your coattails have come undone
Your whisper's a scream now
Since you don't speak to anyone

Words and Music by Jakob Dylan
(p) & (c) 1992

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