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I said I'm sitting here watching
matchbox hole in my clothes
I said I'm sitting here wondering
matchbox hole in my clothes
I ain't got no matches
but I sure got a long way to go
I'm an old poor boy
I'm a long way from home
I'm an old poor boy
and I'm a long way from home
I've never been happy
cause everything I ever did was wrong
Well, if you don't want my peaches
honey please don't shake my tree
If you don't want any of those peaches
honey, please don't mess around my tree
I've got news for you baby
Leave me here in misery, all right!
Well let me be your little dog
till your big dog comes
Let me be your little dog
till your big dog comes
And when your big dog gets here
watch how your puppy dog runs
Well I said I'm sitting here watching
matchbox hole in my clothes
I said I'm sitting here wondering
matchbox hole in my clothes
I ain't got no matches
but I sure got a long way to go
matchbox hole in my clothes
I said I'm sitting here wondering
matchbox hole in my clothes
I ain't got no matches
but I sure got a long way to go
I'm an old poor boy
I'm a long way from home
I'm an old poor boy
and I'm a long way from home
I've never been happy
cause everything I ever did was wrong
Well, if you don't want my peaches
honey please don't shake my tree
If you don't want any of those peaches
honey, please don't mess around my tree
I've got news for you baby
Leave me here in misery, all right!
Well let me be your little dog
till your big dog comes
Let me be your little dog
till your big dog comes
And when your big dog gets here
watch how your puppy dog runs
Well I said I'm sitting here watching
matchbox hole in my clothes
I said I'm sitting here wondering
matchbox hole in my clothes
I ain't got no matches
but I sure got a long way to go
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It's "I'm sitting here wondering would a matchbox hold my clothes."
Another original Carl Perkins number.
Yeah, I never really understood this song, but I'm fond of Ringo's singing, so I'll take it.
I <i>think</i> this song might have something to with a guy getting used by some woman. Either that, or it might be about a fling of some sort. Or maybe it's about something completely different. To be honest, I'm not too sure what it's about. Of course, like EyeMtheWalrus said, it's got Ringo on lead vocals, so it's good with me.
It's not “matchbox hole my clothes”, it's “Will a matchbox hold my clothes”. As in, I don't own much.
Perkins wrote this from bits of various different songs from the turn of the century, some of them made popular in the Jug Band age. The “Will a matchbox hold my clothes” (btw hold not hole) is from a song about being piss poor and on the road, a topic much of the blues of that time talked about. “I'm an old poor boy/and I'm a long way from home/I've never been happy/cause everything I ever did was wrong” is IIRC from the same original. The bits about the woman are from a different song, which was about a woman who was a tease but then played hard.