Lightnin Hopkins Burnin In La Lyrics

Burnin In La Lyrics

Just look at the people

  Whoa just look at the peoples I got over here

I said just look at the people

  Just look at the peoples I got over
here

You know a little sixteen-year-old girl come to me talked and said
Lightnin',

  Would you take me for your souvenir?



You know
they had a big fire down in L.A.

  All them buildings is burnin' down

Oh they had a big fire down in L.A.

(well in Beverly Hills or
somewhere a little close)

  All them buildings is burnin' down

You
know they was lookin' for the fire trucks

  And in time none of 'em would
come around



(Po' children were runnin' and cryin'...

They
couldn't help themselves, they was talkin' too...)



You gotta get
this lesson, children

You gotta get it from the book

Talkin' about
the things you buy raw

Them is things you gotta cook

Mama say she
was hungry

Round about ten o'clock

That was the time the world

Was beginnin' to get on a rock



That was the burnin' down in
L.A.

  All them buildings was burnin' down

Well you know they
didn't have enough water to put out the fire

  250-some home they got
burnin' down