The Young New Mexican Puppeteer - Tom Jones

In a town near Albequerqe

Lived a most concerned

Young boy

He said lately I have noticed

Folks don't live with

Peace and joy

With frowns and worry

In their faces

They're lost and don't

Know where to go

He said I'll get the

People straightened

By putting on a puppet show

The young New Mexican

Puppeteer

He saw the people all

Lived in fear

He thought that maybe

They'd listen to

A puppet telling them what to do

You know he got some string

And he got some wood

He did some carving

And he was good

And folks came running

So they could hear

The young New

Mexican puppeteer

First he carved out

Young Abe Lincoln

Abe will teach 'em civil rights

Then a king named

Martin Luther

So they'd recall

His peacefull fight

Old Mark Twain

His wit and wisdom

Will surely show

Them life is fun

But he smiled with

Satisfaction

When the prince

Of peace was done

The young New

Mexican puppeteer

He saw the people

All lived in fear

He thought that

Maybe they'd listen to

A puppet telling

Them what to do

You know he got some

String and he got

Some wood

He did some carving

And he was good

And folks came

Running so they could hear

The young New

Mexican puppeteer

Now his puppet

Shows were clever

And he made the

People laugh

When he got

Across the message

To walk along lifes

Open path

They built him his

Own puppet theatre

Decked out with

Spotlights yellow and red

And then they wrote him

Up in all the papers

And this is what the story said

It said

The young New

Mexican puppeteer

He saw the people

All lived in fear

He thought that maybe

They would listen to

A puppet telling

Them what to do

You know he got some

String and he got

Some wood

He did some carving

And he was good

And folks came running

So they could hear

The young New Mexican

Puppeteer The young

New Mexican puppeteer

He saw the people

All lived in fear

He thought that maybe

They would listen to

A puppet telling them

What to do

You know he got some

String and he got some wood

He did some carving

And he was good

And folks came running

So they could hear

The young New Mexican

Puppeteer wo oh yeah