 | Boogie Pilgrim |  |
Available on the album Blue Moves
Music: | Elton John, Davey Johnstone, Caleb Quaye |
Lyrics: | Bernie Taupin |
Piano and vocals: | Elton John |
Bass: | Kenny Passarelli |
Drums: | Roger Pope |
Slide guitar: | Davey Johnstone |
Organ: | James Newton-Howard |
Tambourine: | Ray Cooper |
Horns: | Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Barry Rogers, David Sanborn |
Backing vocals: | The Cornerstone Institutional Baptist and Southern California Community Choir |
Crime in the streets
I read about it everyday in the papers
Justice needs and justice wants
But just in times, yes, too late here
Feels like I wasn't born there
I feel just like a Boogie Pilgrim
Boogie Pilgrim
Hustled to get it
To get it together
Down on the jive talk
Down on the weather
Boogie Pilgrim
Brother I never felt better
No, I never felt better
Low life's complete
When you've lived that way out on the sidewalk
(Walking on the sidewalk everyday)
I got the speed if you got the need
But the need in me needs nothing
(But you know that I need nothing)
But I know that you all want something
Just like Boogie Pilgrim
© 1976