Monday, June 11, 2007
A Jersey Blues
Ray DeCarlo, caporegime Cadillac
parked by his office behind a steakhouse,
his pal, Little Pussy, runs the shore rackets,
his rival, Richie the Boot, an uneasy truce,
& the guy they keep on a leash, named The Leash,
Joe Bananas, Bayonne Joe, & another Joe
among lonely Joes, Indian Joe.
Sam the Plumber, dapper & popular,
a boss that knows what’s a boss, says,
I’ve only done good. The guy
that does anything bad to me
is the worst S.O.B. in the world.
Oh Ray, cry the boys, where
are the great wise guys of yesterday?
All this Black Power crap wrecking our turf,
Feds grabbing union books,
crazy kids from Philly whacking for kicks,
the State taking over the numbers,
& what they want to do to Atlantic City
is a crime, we might as well burn
the 500 Club, Frank
won’t sing there no more.
© Bob Rixon
Inspired by cheap paperbacks that were cut & paste from FBI wiretap transcripts of the last generation of old style Jersey bosses. Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante was a rarity, a boss who handed over the day-to-day operations of his small family to an underling & "retired" to Florida. His family was one of David Chase's models for Tony Soprano's crew.
parked by his office behind a steakhouse,
his pal, Little Pussy, runs the shore rackets,
his rival, Richie the Boot, an uneasy truce,
& the guy they keep on a leash, named The Leash,
Joe Bananas, Bayonne Joe, & another Joe
among lonely Joes, Indian Joe.
Sam the Plumber, dapper & popular,
a boss that knows what’s a boss, says,
I’ve only done good. The guy
that does anything bad to me
is the worst S.O.B. in the world.
Oh Ray, cry the boys, where
are the great wise guys of yesterday?
All this Black Power crap wrecking our turf,
Feds grabbing union books,
crazy kids from Philly whacking for kicks,
the State taking over the numbers,
& what they want to do to Atlantic City
is a crime, we might as well burn
the 500 Club, Frank
won’t sing there no more.
© Bob Rixon
Inspired by cheap paperbacks that were cut & paste from FBI wiretap transcripts of the last generation of old style Jersey bosses. Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante was a rarity, a boss who handed over the day-to-day operations of his small family to an underling & "retired" to Florida. His family was one of David Chase's models for Tony Soprano's crew.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Yah, I like it too. It's at least 20 years old, the sort of poem that gave me a rep with some "prominent" Jersey literati as a flippant, unserious poet.
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