Carolyn Wonderland - Golden Stairs (written by Robert Hunter & Vince Welnick) video free download

Golden Stairs

Lyrics: Robert Hunter

Music: Vince Welnick

A Robert Hunter lyric from "Box Of Rain" that Vince Welnick set to music

Bet five hundred dollars

Any course you steer

Someone got to argue

Can't get there from here

Easy with that road map

You're flapping in my face

You're a rock-and-roll singer

Not a minister of grace

Chorus

Go down shining

Go down shine

Go down shining

Shine, shine, shine

Before you sign another loan

To free yourself from debt

Take a careful look around

To see who holds the bets

There will be no winners

May not even be a race

Just a lot of starving runners

Staring hunger in the face

[chorus]

Rock around the clock again

You got the time to dare

There's never any hurry

When you take it stair by stair

There are no paid vacations

To alleviate the cares

Of the hungry and the homeless

Climbing up the golden stairs

[chorus]

Blind and lonesome hobo

Flag the mystery train

Something that the cat dug up

Dragged out of the rain

You got all the makings of

A case beyond compare

But you don't need a licence

To climb the golden stair

[chorus]