Fruit Cocktail Cannery Blues - Stewart Eastham

Written by：Stewart Eastham/Long Bar Music

I work all day in this cannery job

Each can that goes by is like a soul that's been robbed

I thought one day I'd grow up to be a man

But here I stand with my life ruled by a can

Cannery set me free

I've got fruit cocktail in my dreams

Cannery set me free

I'm pretty sure this ain't where I'm supposed to be

There's a girl over on pear watch and some folks call her may

I said may maybe you and I could go out someday

May said may I tell you something just as a friend

I said may you may say what you like she said

I think I'm a lesbian

Me and may got to hanging out and drinking every night

Shuffleboard games at the keg room up until closing time

Til one night 2am

May said she was moving down to the east bay

Said she'd had enough of this rotten place and the meanness of its ways

Cannery set me free

I've got fruit cocktail in my dreams

Cannery set me free

I'm pretty sure this ain't where I'm supposed to be

I was missing may when big Ricky said

Let's have some fun

He said I got my

Favorite sweatpants on for the gentlemens club

After second shift we hit that joint on 99

Hot legs hot wings flashed the red and blue neon sign

Met a rockabilly dancer and spilled my secrets at twenty dollars a song

But even picking zeppelin tunes my money didn't hold out long

She said her real name was Sara and I swear I fell in love

But when I went back the very next night

She didn't know who I was

Cannery set me free

I've got fruit cocktail in my dreams

Cannery set me free

I'm pretty sure this ain't where I'm supposed to be

Drunk one night I called up may and asked if I could crash

With her and her old lady in Oakland until I got some cash

She said boss right now it's a little crowded up in here

But how's about you give me a ring after labor day

Next year

Now I'm stuck here up on can watch

The worst job I've ever had

I just tripped and fell and hit

My head and I'm bleeding pretty bad

I close my eyes pretend I'm on a stage in Nashville Tennessee

Singing songs about how much I hate this goddamn cannery

Cannery set me free

Just another empty can floating by

Cannery set me free

I'm pretty sure this ain't where I'm supposed to die