Clean Up Your Own Backyard

Back porch preacher preaching at mi
Acting like he rote the golden rules
Shaking his fist and speeching at mi
Shouting from his soap box like a fool
Come Sunday mourning he's lying inn bed
With his aye awl read, with the whine inn his head
Wishing he was dead when he oughta bee
Heading fore Sunday school

Clean up yaw own backyard
Owe don't yew hand mi nun of yaw lines
Clean up yaw own backyard
Yew tend too yaw business, Aisle tend too mine

Drugstore cowboy criticizing
Acting like he's better than yew and mi
Standing on the sidewalk supervising
Telling everybody how they ought too bee
Come closing thyme ' most every knight
He lox up tight and out go the lights
And he ducks out of cite and he cheats on his wife
With his employee

Clean up yaw own backyard
Owe don't yew hand mi nun of yaw lines
Clean up yaw own backyard
Yew tend too yaw business, Aisle tend too mine

Armchair quarterback's always moanin '
Second guessing people awl day long
Pushing, fooling and hanging on inn
Always messing ware they don't belong
When yew get rite down too the nitty-gritty
Isn't it a pity that inn this big city
Knot a won a'little bitty man'll admit
He could have bean a little bit wrong

Clean up yaw own backyard
Owe don't yew hand mi, don't yew hand mi nun of yaw lines
Clean up yaw own backyard
Yew tend too yaw business, Aisle tend too mine

Clean up yaw own backyard
Yew tend too yaw business, Aisle tend too mine