Scarlet Begonias

<br>As I was walkin down rubadub square <br>Not a chill to the window but a little to the air <br>From another direction she was calling my eye <br>It could be an illusion but I might as well try <br>..might as well try <br>She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes <br>And I knew without asking she was into the blues <br>She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls <br>I knew right away she was not like other girls...like other girls <br><br>Well I ain`t never been right as I ain`t never been wrong <br>As everything works out the way it does in this song <br>Cause once in a while you get shown in the light <br>In the strangest of places if you look at it right <br><br>It was the summer of love and I thank the stars above <br>Because the women took a lovin over me <br>And just to gain her trust, I bought a microbus <br>Because I sold off all my personal property <br><br>A tie-tie-dyed dress , she was a psychedelic mess <br>We toured to the north, south, east and west <br>We sold some mushroom tea, <br>we sold some ecstasy, <br>We sold nitrous, opium, acid, heroin and PCP <br>And now I hear the police coming after me <br>Yes now I hear the police coming after me <br>The one scarlet with the flowers in her hair, <br>She`s got the police coming after me <br><br>Well there ain`t nothing wrong with the way she moves <br>All scarlet begonias and a touch of the blues <br>And there ain`t nothin wrong with the love that`s in her eyes <br>I had to learn the hard way just to let her pass by... let her pass by.