Elton John
"Rotten Peaches" lyrics

Rotten Peaches

We've moved on six miles
From where we were yesterday
And yesterday is but
A long, long ways away

So we'll camp out tonight
Beneath the bright starlight
And forget rotten peaches
And the places we've stayed

I left from the dockland
Two years ago now
Made my way
Over on the S.S. Marie
And I've always had trouble
Wherever I've settled
Rotten peaches
Are all that I see

Rotten peaches rotting in the sun
Seems I've seen that devil fruit
Since the world begun
Mercy, I'm a criminal
Jesus, I'm the one
Rotten peaches
Rotting in the sun

Rotten peaches rotting in the sun
Seems I've seen that devil fruit
Since the world begun
Mercy, I'm a criminal
Jesus, I'm the one
Rotten peaches
Rotting in the sun

There ain't no green grass
In a US state prison
There is no one to hold
When you're sick for your wife

And each day out you'll pick
You'll pick rotten peaches
You'll pick rotten peaches
For the rest of your life

Oh, I've had me my fill
Of cocaine and pills
For I lie
In the light of the Lord
And my home is ten thousand
Ten thousand miles away
And I guess
I won't see it
No more

Rotten peaches rotting in the sun
Seems I've seen that devil fruit
Since the world begun
Mercy, I'm a criminal
Jesus, I'm the one
Rotten peaches
Rotting in the sun

Rotten peaches rotting in the sun
Seems I've seen that devil fruit
Since the world begun
Mercy, I'm a criminal
Jesus, I'm the
Jesus, I'm the one
Rotten peaches
Rotting in the sun

Rotten peaches
Rotting in the sun
Rotten peaches
Rotting in the sun

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Authors: Elton John, Bernie Taupin