Lyrics Jonathan Richman

Jonathan Richman

The Lonely Little Thrift Store

By the sidewalk there with the cracks in it

with the mexican restaurant next to it

With the clothes for the big and the fat in it

and the moth ball smell to the hats in it

is the lonely little thrift store,

the hard luck little thrift store where I go

Yeah

Well it's an old store front from the 30's

and it gives you a feel of the old days

and the next door barber shop

where famous athletes used to stop

but now its plain and now its down

and there's garbage on the ground

well the lonely little thrift store

the hard luck little thrift store where I go.

Well all right.

Well the avocado green appliances

with the smell of domestic violences

and the dusty Farberware

and the rusty dinette chair

in the lonely little thrift store

the hard luck little thrift store where I go.

Yeah

The record by the 101 strings

and all those lonely little things

see how that popcorn poppers looks sad

because of the short little life it's had

once it was a happy wedding gift

but when they split it too got left

at the lonely little thrift store

the hard luck little thrift store where I go.

Yeah