Little Tom

Intro Well someone shot the president, on the night that I was born I wasn't born to poverty or wealth Just one in a million babies, often to be told Keep their opinions to themselves I really wasn't all that small but they called me Little Tom And they sent me to school far away I don't really get it and I may never know But they said at the time that there was no other way, no other way Instrumental Well they say I had a sister, but she died when I was young In a home that the government had found her in And the place they found for me they called the great opportunity Still I wish she could have died with me around her See some kids got a beatin', some kids went away Sometimes I'd hear 'em leaving in the night One time I saw Jesus standing outside in the rain And he told me that I was gonna be all right, gonna be all right Instrumental Well the priest there he bought me a suit, and we got in his car And he took me for a ride downtown Said the Army is the place for you, be a man before they're through He walked away while I was just staring down Now which God made the criminals, and which God made police And which God makes the ones like me Where do bad guys come from if they don't fall out of the sky When I get out I'm gonna work at stayin free, just stayin free Instrumental