Got a single baby back rib slow cookin on a water heater pilot light
got a bag full of scrappin cans I collected overnight
got a big bad tooth on the underside man it's gettin hard to chew
yeah the best part of a vagrant life is that you ain't got much to lose
yeah there musta been a breakdown
way down where the crossroads meet
but theres gonna be a shakedown
shakedown on salvation street.
I got seven hundred cigarette buts in a big ol' jelly jar
windshield wiper violin bow and a two string old guitar
I went downtown to the blues club say I wanna book a show
a teenage girl with a nose ring on say "you old folks got to go"
There musta been some kinda breakdown
way down where the crossroads meet
but there's gonna be a shakedown
shakedown on salvation street
shakedown.
Yeah there musta been some kinda breakdown
way down where the crossroads meet
but there's gonna be a shakedown
shakedown on salvation street
Had a day job with a chainsaw yeah they got me diggin out a stump
had a rusty old pickup truck breakin down every time I hit a bump
I got me a mean blues riff even some may call it rock
I'm a blues man with a fishin pole but the boat just left the dock
yeah there musta been some kinda breakdown
way down where those crossroads meet
but there's gonna be a shakedown
shakedown on salvation street
theres gonna be a shakedown
shakedown on salvation street
shakedown.