The Bohemian Fringe - Black Velvet Blues Lyrics

Won't you help our starving artists?
You know that you deserve the best
Genuine oil on real black velvet
All for twenty bucks or less

Though you might think that some look similar
No two of them are quite the same
True art's test is in the details
And yes that price includes the frame

Matadors and ocean sunsets
Each one a beauty to behold
Down at the gas station on the corner
Where the prince of peace meets the king of rock and roll

Who couldn't use as little color
In a world so full of gray?
It's hides that patch of cracking plaster
Brings a little culture to your day

No home's complete without some art work
Doesn't have to be a lot
If you can't afford a Monet
You just make do with what you've got

Puppy dogs and wide-eyed children
Each one a beauty to behold
Down at the gas station on the corner
Where the prince of peace meets the king of rock and roll

You see that guy there on the corner?
Gets two bucks for each picture he can sell
The artist in Korea gets a quarter
What's wrong with this picture, can you tell?

You have to wonder what's going on here
Obnoxious trash or merely harmless kitsch?
Though each one costs only twenty dollars
I think that someone somewhere's getting rich

Anything that anybody values
A cheaper copy somewhere will be sold
Down at the gas station on the corner
Where the prince of peace meets the king of rock and roll