"My thirsty wanted whiskey
My hungry needed beans,
But it’d been a month of paydays
Since I’d earned the equal scene"
It should read:
"My thirsty wanted whiskey
My hungry needed beans,
But it’d been a month of paydays
Since I’d heard that eagle scream"
The screaming eagle is a poetic reference to the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, so it's a fancy way of saying that he's too poor to buy either. "Since I'd earned the equal scene" means absolutely nothing at all.
This part of the lyrics are wrong:
"My thirsty wanted whiskey My hungry needed beans, But it’d been a month of paydays Since I’d earned the equal scene"
It should read:
"My thirsty wanted whiskey My hungry needed beans, But it’d been a month of paydays Since I’d heard that eagle scream"
The screaming eagle is a poetic reference to the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, so it's a fancy way of saying that he's too poor to buy either. "Since I'd earned the equal scene" means absolutely nothing at all.