Dear Landlord - Joan Baez

Dear landlord

Please don’t put a price on my soul

My burden is heavy

My dreams are beyond control

When that steamboat whistle blows

I’m gonna give you all I got to give

And I do hope you receive it well

Depending on the way you feel that you live.

Dear landlord

Please heed these words that I speak

I know you’ve suffered much

But in this you are not so unique

All of us, at times we might work too hard

To have it too fast and too much

And anyone can fill his life up With things he can see but he just cannot touch.

Dear landlord

Please don’t dismiss my case

I’m not about to argue

I’m not about to move to no other place

Now, each of us has his own special gift

And you know this was meant to be true

And if you don’t underestimate me I won’t underestimate you.