1.Lament
I could tell you that i was a christian
And i don't guess that would be a lie
I could tell you that i was church of christ
And i don't guess you could prove me wrong
So don't trouble no policeman
He's got a wife and kids of his own
And don't trouble yer neighbor
Cause they just want to be left alone
I suppose if i was a demon
I might have bugs all over my legs
It might make sense for me t'tangle
With my wife for awhile
So don't trouble no policeman
He's got a wife and kids of his own
And don't trouble yer neighbor
Cause they just want to be left alone
Lord ain't this nation lonely
2.Plaid Coat
Started out late
In my dirty plaid coat
Watched my heel
Lift the dead satin dress
From the ground
One day i touched it with my hands
And it scattered like scared birds
By 3a.m. they were pidgeons
With drinking problems and bad luck
On god's front porch
Where the wind
Is dense with insects
Where the wind
Is dense with bugs
Made of coffee and guitars
3.Magnolia
Well its the end of the dream
That started on green metal
She whispered and the wind shook
The magnolia seeded limp in winter
Well she twisted round the cage
And she twisted round the cage
And slipped out into the shaking night
And only shuffled cloth hanging
In the quickness of her leaving
Only shuffled cloth hanging
In the hastiness of her flight
4.Stadium Blitzer
Whistle through my wallet
Rent's due - i ain't got it
I like my water heater
Its's a leaker in my stadium blitzer
Livings gotten easy
Everything i ever wanted
From glasgow and the liquor store
I'm completely satiated
No longer a romantic
I ain't slack-jawed
I am responsible
For the stupid things i say
Like the doctor and the poodle
Are procrastinators
There's a lover dancing and laughing
All the way to his grave ha ha ha ha
5.Lgo
The kiwi and the liquid gold
For helen would have surely knowed
I'd love her if it weren't that i
Bind myself to a single joy
I was sleeping with my lgo
I was polishing my midnight runners
I was handling my regal tip
Cold beer and my prison rolls
Take a good look at the patchwork
That hellen saw on my foot
Well she took a look around, friend
Yeah she took her love to town, friend
I was sleeping with my lgo
I was polishing my midnight runners
I was handling my regal tip
Cold beer and my prison rolls
I got eyes i can't stand it
Jalepeños inbetween my toes
The duke of earl and smoking joe
All the kiwi and the liquid gold
I was sleeping with my lgo
I was polishing my midnight runners
I was handling my regal tip
Cold beer and my prison rolls
I'm gonna eat my damn 8 year old shoes
6.Boil My Strings
Living down here they throw me down and count me
I'm making this up, it keeps my feathers clean
And the black boys they kick my ass and tell me
That the women their ruby lips are dry.
I get angry and i get sad
And i lose this sweetness that i used to have
And i boil my strings
To get them back to gold
Sleeping in here they give me plenty to eat
Don't make trouble, make something with the concrete
So i fill my pipes with it to break them black boys heads
Lord, but i wish i had a gun.
7.Coppermine
Coppermine, oh coppermine
My great-great grandfolk on my father's side
Used to work,in a coppermine - oh yeah
A penny here, a penny there
Won't you drop one in my waterwell
The women lived in maine＊ my friend
The men they lived underground
Copperwire oh copperwire
Clever clever copperwire
Wrapped in black rubber
Never knew it was a miner's manner
I loved so well
A penny here, a penny there
Won't you drop one in my waterwell
The women lived in maine my friend
The men they lived underground
8.Maria
Oh maria hands it out
She comes from guatamala
She helps me get around
She helps when i'm in trouble
When the ice cream hit the ground
The federales they were a'coming
She had made arrangements with a vendor
The stupid gringo - he got away
Now if i had a $100's
And maracas in my hand
I'd shake them for maria
I'd pressure her old man
To let me take her back to texas
In the white pickup truck
Where she had done a dozen favors
To get me out of dutch
La...
Now we never spank the children
And the house is pretty small
And i never learned the language
Of old guatamal
But there are frijoles when i'm hungry
And i drink tequila when i'm dry
And the coffee is oh so good
And maria hands it out
La...
9.Raining In Port Arthur
This afternoon i walked out into a ditch
The crawfish stirred the water
The papermill blew in on the southeastern wind
And it was raining in port arthur
I pulled a dead limb from a fallen pine
The sun was dropping on the lower neches valley
I called the dogs from out of the woods with a hollar
And it was raining in port arthur
That night my daddy drove us to maw maw's
He and mama wanted to be alone
I sat up in that mimosa tree with my brother
And it was raining in port arthur
The refinerys hum and glow from the road
And i listen to the dove as she mourns
I'm standing in the rice fields of beaumont
And it was raining in port arthur
10.Dyin' Diamond
Black wall weeping
When i go to see the king
Put my dyin' diamond on
And the song in the honeybread
With my dyin' diamond by and by...
11.When The Money Comes Rolling In
Jack hammers whistle at your gait
Call it what you will
When all the beauties go to lunch
Call it what you will
When the self-bereaved bastards bellyache
Languid from being a gal's best friend
Three tumbles and call it what you will
When the money comes rolling in
When the money comes rolling in
When the money comes rolling in
When the flippin money comes rolling in
Years and years of liplocked hooligans
Call it what you will
The complete works kitch or thievery
Call it what you will
My darlin my dear you deliver me
My how my heart swells enormously
Three tumbles and call it what you please
When the money comes rolling in
When the money comes rolling in
When the money comes rolling in
When the flippin money comes rolling in
, you can get it if you really want but you must try. you must
try you suceed at last. d. decker.
12.I Ate The Haggis
I ate the haggis
By and by hallelujah
I ate the haggis, now i
Feel like a cat on the warm hood
Of a car that's just done driving
On a cold winter's day hey hey
Brought to me from scotland
With a fiver i can't spend
Got directions on the can
To serve it up with a wee dram
A wee dram of irish whiskey
On a cold winter's day
Lamb, oats and suet
Boiled in the stomach of a sheep
I ate the haggis
By and by hallelujah
I ate the haggis now my
Father used to tell me
Don't go pissin on the apples
That have fallen from the tree
Cause you'll see that when yer hungry
And yer backs against the wall
A fallen apple ain't so bad
To eat
I ate the haggis by and by
Hallelujah.
13.Cold Bed
The cold tonight seems more anxious to talk
Than he has seemed in nights before
Skinless face and yellow heart, he
Hesitates and i wait
All my stories are about the same things
I find so many beds for them
I find this package of tiny lamps
And it makes a firey ring
Right now is the reason i carry this jewel
Everywhere round my neck
I keep it close but still outside
This is my explanation
All my stories are about the same things
I find so many beds for them
I find this package of tiny lamps
And it makes a firey ring
A box of love and sex and reflection
Its got my face and hands
The lonely is yellow and old
Watch the cold around my bed
All my stories are about the same things
I find so many beds for them
I find this package of tiny lamps
And it makes a firey ring
14.Pushed Her Down
I kissed the ground
I coughed it up
My lemon skin
My broken jar
I pushed her down on my way up
I saw the top
Of her head
I was tired
So i went to bed
I pushed her down on my way up
Now the bones
And leaves are dry
I sleep in the corners
Of her eyes
15.Pine Island Bayou
My poor uncle jimmy turk
He got his house full of water and dirt
In that flood of '94 pine island bayou
Came thru his door
In that flood of '94
That devil rain began t'poor
It swelled the banks of the sabine
Those waters dark and warm and mean
When that bayou began to crest
My uncle jimmy did his best
T'save his family and his home
To this day you can hear him moan
16.I Like Drinking
I like drinking to forget your name
And i smoke reefer a'do much the same
Between me and you - there's ain't nothing i wouldn't do
To untangle these ties with you
How much sweet life source have you took
I keep thinking i'd rather not look
Our love's like a fern thats been dried up and burned
It's absurd - but i keep coming back.
Oh believe me bruther
I bleeve i'd ruther
Dig a hole and crawl in the ground
Between you and i i think i'd ruther die
So i'll just stay drunk all the time
I've been over and over this girl
But you like the rattle snakes curl
You coil to strike me again
In my wide world of sin
Lights out i think its the end
Have mercy on me jesus christ
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