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The Track Is an Open Door

There ain't no ladder for us working poor.

David schell
May 14, 2025
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The Track Is an 
Open Door

In  the Mississippi Delta
spent time pickin’ groves.
Up in Chicago I learned
how to shake a dime.

In Kansas city  I was
chuckin’ beef.
Down in the Bowery
I got good at drinkin’ wine.

Momma say we be born
a shackled people.
There ain't no ladder for
us working poor.
One thing you won’t need no key.
The tracks are an open doo…

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