Utah Phillips - Larimer Street lyrics

Your bulldozers rolling through my part of town The iron ball swings and knocks it all down You knocked down my flophouse and knocked down my bars Black-topped it over to park all your cars And where will I go and where can I stay? You knocked down the skid row and hauled it away I'll flag a fast rattler and ride it on down, boys They're running the bums out of town Old Maxie the tailor is closing his doors There ain't nothing left in the secondhand stores You knocked down my hock shop and the big Harbor Lights The old Chinese cafe that was open all night And where will I go and where can I stay? You knocked down the skid row and hauled it away I'll flag a fast rattler and ride it on down, boys They're running the bums out of town You ran out the hookers who worked on the street But built a new club where the playboys can meet My bookie joint closed when your cops made a raid But you built a new hall for the stock market trade And where will I go and where can I stay? You knocked down the skid row and hauled it away I'll flag a fast rattler and ride it on down, boys They're running the bums out of town These little storekeepers they don't have a chance With the big uptown bankers a-calling the dance With their suit-and-tie restaurants that's all owned by Greeks And the counterfeit hippies and their plastic boutiques And where will I go and where can I stay? You knocked down the skid row and hauled it away I'll flag a fast rattler and ride it on down, boys They're running the bums out of town Now I'm finding out there's just one kind of war It's the one going on 'tween the rich and the poor I guess that I don't know a lot about cla** But the upper and middle can all kiss my a** And where will I go and where can I stay? You knocked down the skid row and hauled it away I'll flag a fast rattler and ride it on down, boys They're running the bums out of town