You've got a cardboard house

Live there all the time

Keep your memories tied with string

The face that many once-adored

Twenty years gone maybe more

Somewhere you lost your dream

Mama watched your every move

But now you're all alone

She's been gone for awhile

Daddy left some time ago

Fading years pass too slow

He's the only one could make you smile

Oh you're still crying

Big city bound

Gonna make your mark

Read your name in the lights

All the ads and people say

Beauty lets you get your way

Tried your best to prove them right

But living on the streets ain't bad

Sad people make you glad

Pardon me could you spare some change

--oh you're still crying--

Street corner girl

Watch the crowd go by

Fill your tin can with life

Summer days tend to slip away

Like your men you couldn't make them stay

Hard to choose whiskey or a wife

Sometimes you wonder where's the end

Where you goin' where you been

Happiness seems so hard to win

Most never care to find

Della Brown sees it all the time

Looking for that man

To make her smile again oh you're still crying