Beggars & Hangers-on

Album: It's Five O' Clock Somewhere (1995)
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Songfacts®:

  • Snakepit members Slash and Eric Dover wrote this with Duff McKagan, who was with Slash in Guns N' Roses. The song is about problems that plague the city of Los Angeles, including drug users and drug dealers.
  • The video is entirely black and white and is set in the '30s, when probation and poverty were at their height in the United States. >>>
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    Scott - Jacksonvill, FL, for above 2

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  • Trish from Houston, TxI absolutely love this song, it's always included in my playlist.
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