TOM SAWYER - Upriver Joe (Injun Joe)

From Tom Boyd's musical TOM SAWYER, Injun Joe tells of his miserable life as a misfit and outcast in Missouri society.

UP RIVER JOE
BORN TWO SCORE AGO
IN A BACKWATER SHACK
ON THE BLACK POKAMO

NOBODY KNOW
THE KINFOLK OF JOE
NO ONE KNOW WHERE THEY FROM
WHEN THEY COME, WHEN THEY GO

JOE GROWED UP
IN A WORLD THAT DIDN'T LIKE HIM
FOLKS CALLED HIM 'CUR'
CAUSE HE AIN'T GOT NO PA

JOE GROWED UP
IN A WORLD THAT DESPISED HIM
CURSED AS AN OUTCAST
JIST LIKE HIS MA

JOE BY EIGHT
HAD COME TO HATE
THEM PETERSBURG PIGS
WHO DEALT HIM HIS PAINS

JOE BY TEN
WAS SWEARIN' REVENGE
ON THEM SELF-RIGHTEOUS PRIGS
WHO GOT BIBLES FOR BRAINS

JOE, NINETEEN
LEAN, STRONG AND MEAN
SILENT AND VI'LENT
ON EDGE TO ATTACK

JOE AT TWO SCORE
AS BAD AS BEFORE
IF YOU BOSS HIM OR CROSS HIM
WATCH OUT FOR YOUR BACK!

SO LONG AS HE LIVES
YOU'LL PAY FOR YOUR DEBTS
JOE NEVER FORGIVES!
JOE NEVER FORGETS!

words & music©TomBoyd

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• childrens'
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• theatre
• schools
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