Intro: verse 1 I had a gun pointed at my head on several occasions Yeah, Nadine I was scared Something about a black man with a machine gun Make you wish you said your prayers It was Nigeria The year was Nineteen Sixty-Nine I was teaching criminology Played a little guitar on the side verse 2 In Apache Pass, Prince Rupert Indian Jack puts a gun to my head He said, "How do you like it now gentlemen? How’s your blue eyed boy, Mr Dead?" It was Canada this time The year was Nineteen Seventy-One I was performing at the Club Zanzibar In the neon world of knives and guns Oh, excuse me if I’m boring you, dear listener Accept my humble apology You may think I’m just a folk singer, no I’m a master in the art of criminology verse 3 When Picasso died, the Indians cried In a Prince George motel room We were drunker than a thousand white men Playing lumber camp saloon It was Canada again The year was Nineteen Seventy-Three There were grizzly bears walking down main street What an amazing sight to see verse 4 Well, the devil rides a cubist horse The devil he’s got angles But god is an expressionist He got the devil strangled Down in purgatorian limbo in hell Ahh, them southern rip joints just like that God’s waiting room is full of painters and poets And old black jazz saints in pork pie hats Well, excuse me if I’m boring you, dear listener Accept my humble apology You may think I’m some jive folk singer, no I’m a master in the art of criminology Instrumental Verse 5 So, I got off a plane in Nigeria It was Nineteen Sixty-Nine Arrested by Ton Ton Macoute Taking photos was a war zone crime They were gonna hack me up with machetes A US ambassador, come home, paid my bribe So, I played guitar with Victor Uwaifo Taught a little criminology on the side Yeah, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it No regrets, no surrender, no apology I know a little bit about a lot of things I’m a master in the art of criminology Yeah, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it No regrets, no surrender, no apology I know a little bit about a lot of things I’m a master in the art of criminology Outro Criminology Criminology Criminology
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