Ballad of A Bad Boy | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer
Patti Smith's unreleased 'Ballad of A Bad Boy' poetry reading with archival footage of a foreigner at Taichung, Taiwan's | dG1fMjhJWEVxNXpnWWc
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00:00Twice times she shoved me in a hole and cut off all my fingers and laid them in a finger bowl.
00:10My mama killed me. My papa grieved for me. My little sister Annalee wept under the almond tree.
00:20Oh I loved a car and when I was feeling sad I laid down on my daddy's Ford and I'd feel good.
00:33You know that I got bad. Robbed hand caps from the man and sold them to the woman
00:42and stole them back again and I got me a car a Hudson Hornet car
00:50and rolled the pretty ladies and often went too far. I went to Chicago. I went to Kalamazoo.
01:00I went to Nashville. The highways I flew. I went to Salinas. I rowed to the sea
01:09and the people scolded and pointed to me. They said there's a bad boy. I was so bad boy.
01:19They gathered their daughters. I heard what they said. Steer away from him honey because that boy
01:26is bad and though he's hung good and flashes that too. Don't slide by his side. He rides a wrong route.
01:39Because he's a bad boy. I was so bad boy. My mama killed me. My papa grieved for me.
01:47My little sister Annalee weeped under the almond tree.
01:53And I webbed on a stock car. I captured the junk yards and I sped through the canyons through.
02:02I never went far from the wrecker's mechanics. I worshipped these men but they laughed at me man.
02:12They called me mama's boy. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Monday at midnight. Tuesday at two.
02:23Drunk on tequila thinking of you ma. I drove my car on ma. Wrecking cars was my art.
02:34I held a picture of you ma. Close to my heart. I rode closed windows. It was 90 degrees.
02:43The crowd. It was screaming. It was screaming for me. They said I was nonsense.
02:53True driver. Chicken driver. No sense. But I couldn't hear them. I couldn't see.
03:00Fenders hot as angels blazed inside of me. I sped. Unraged in steam heat. I cracked up
03:10and rolled at your feet. I rose in flames and rolled in a pit where you caught me with a tire
03:19iron and covered me in shit. And I could have got up but the crowd it screamed no. That boy is evil.
03:29Too bad for parole. So bad his ma cut off all his fingers and laid him in a finger bowl.
03:37His mama killed him. His papa grieved for him. His little sister Annalee weeped under the almond tree.
03:46Oh I was bad. Didn't do what I should. Mama catch me with a lichen and she tell me you be good.