Jones Tom The Young New Mexican Puppeteer Lyrics

The Young New Mexican Puppeteer Lyrics

In a town near Albequerqe

 Lived a most concerned young boy

 He said lately I have noticed

 Folks don't live with peace and joy

 

 With frowns and worry on their faces

 They're lost and don't know where to go

 He said I'll get the people straightened

 By putting on a puppet show

 

 The young New Mexican puppeteer

 He saw the people all lived in fear

 He thought that maybe they'd listen to

 A puppet telling them what to do

 

 You know he got some string and he got some wood

 He did some carving and he was good

 And folks came running so they could hear

 The young New Mexican puppeteer

 

 First he carved out young Abe Lincoln

 Abe will teach 'em civil rights

 Then a king named Martin Luther

 So they'd recall his peacefull fight

 

 Old Mark Twain, his wit and wisdom

 Will surely show them life is fun

 But he smiled with satisfaction

 When the prince of peace was done

 

 The young New Mexican puppeteer

 He saw the people all lived in fear

 He thought that maybe they'd listen to

 A puppet telling them what to do

 

 You know he got some string and he got some wood

 He did some carving and he was good

 And folks came running so they could hear

 The young New Mexican puppeteer

 

 

 

 

 Now his puppet shows were clever

 And he made the people laugh

 When he got across the message

 To walk along lifes open path

 

 They built him his own puppet theatre

 Decked out with spotlights yellow and red

 And then they wrote him up in all the papers

 And this is what the story said

 

 It said...

 

 The young New Mexican puppeteer

 He saw the people all lived in fear

 He thought that maybe they would listen to

 A puppet telling them what to do

 

 You know he got some string and he got some wood

 He did some carving and he was good

 And folks came running so they could hear

 The young New Mexican puppeteer

 

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