SWEEDEEDEE

SWEEDEEDEEAnother favourite song from my son, Early. Michael Hurley with his strange, haunted voice from another time, way beyond, full of heart. ‘He’s sad but getting on with it,’ says Earl. Such an easy morning listening to these beautiful songs with my boy! Love Susie. x


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Sweedeedee


My little woman causes me a whole lot of trouble sometimes

She worries me so bad

I don't know what to do

I take a walk

Figure the rolling of my feet would come to ease my mind

I'll just go away

And I won't know

Where I'm going


And I won't know where That I am going to

Cause she bugger me

She bugger me

Oh man, she'd bugger you


I'm with you in the morning, baby

'till the break of day

I know you won't take my heart

Tryin' to make me go away

Seems like everybody

Has got a little hard luck, sometime

And I know one thing for sure, baby

I've been having mine


We had one of them old fleabag apartments

You know the kind I mean

You walk up on the fifth floor there

Sometimes on a sunny day from the roof

You can see them flying kites in Washington Square

I go up on the roof and I watch her hanging up the clothes and I'd say to her:

"Wash the clothes, Sweedeedee

And hang 'em on the line

I can see by the way you wash the clothes

Your cooking must be fine"


I'm with you in the morning, baby

'till the break of day

Well, I know you don't want my heart

Tryin' to make me go away

Seems like everybody

Got a little hard luck sometime

And I know one thing for sure

I've been having mine


I remember that old scumbag coffee shop we used to hang out at

The manager there he'd let us stay without paying a cover

And I was always asking her sometime

We gotta leave the city

And I'd say to her:

"You wash them clothes, Sweedeedee

And hang 'em on the line

And I can see by the way

You wash the clothes

Your cooking must be fine"


I'm with you in the morning baby

'till the break of day

I know you won't take my heart

Don't make me go away

Seem like everybody

Got a little hard luck, sometime

And I know one thing for sure, baby

I've been having mine

Baby, I've been having mine

You wash them clothes, Sweedeedee

And hang them on the line

And I can see by the way

You wash the clothes

Your cooking must be fine


By Michael Hurley