For Rossa Richter
It's like a cannonball
Everybody heard your name
Above “The New Richter Waltz”
Blind Charlie Dubois has done it again
The newspaper men
From The Graphic and Truth, to The Daily Citizen,
They want you to stop
Why can't Secretary Cross
Do anything about your falling (down)?
I guess I'll move to the States
All these meddling men legislate what I'm great at
"They say you risk life and limb,"
Well, I don't believe them
"The way they look at your skin,"
Yes, that's closer to the reason why they'd wanna pin me down
I don't know what to do anymore.
Can't run the thread or jump head-long from a trapeze bar
Sing for thieves, opera comique, “It Is So Easy,”
But at Jackson Prison I'll never do that again!