Back porch preacher preaching at me
Acting like he wrote the golden rules

Shaking his fist and speeching at me
Shouting from his soap box like a fool
Come Sunday morning he's lying in bed

With his eye all red, with the wine in his head
Wishing he was dead when he oughta be
Heading for Sunday school


Clean up your own backyard
Oh don't you hand me none of your lines

Clean up your own backyard
You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine


Drugstore cowboy criticizing
Acting like he's better than you and me
Standing on the sidewalk supervising

Telling everybody how they ought to be
Come closing time 'most every night
He locks up tight and out go the lights

And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife
With his employee


Clean up your own backyard
Oh don't you hand me none of your lines
Clean up your own backyard

You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine

Armchair quarterback's always moanin'

Second guessing people all day long
Pushing, fooling and hanging on in
Always messing where they don't belong

When you get right down to the nitty-gritty
Isn't it a pity that in this big city
Not a one a'little bitty man'll admit

He could have been a little bit wrong

Clean up your own backyard

Oh don't you hand me, don't you hand me none of your lines
Clean up your own backyard
You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine


Clean up your own backyard
You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine