Amarillo Dust
"Hey troubadour, tell me what's your name, what your game and where you playin' tonight"
Well I play a little country in a honky tonk, I gotta new song hope you like it all right, it's called
Oh oh oh, My Country...Where My Country Gone
See they sent me down to Texas on a buck and a dime, to dance the country girls cross that county line
so I spent twenty hours in the back of a bus, dreaming country lines, suckin' Amarillo Dust, singing
Oh oh oh, My County...Where My Country Gone
Oh oh oh, My Country...Sing My Country Song
I'll write another song, baby just for you I'll write a song about us
I'll sing another song just to pay the bills, I'll sing another song about Amarillo Dust
So don't tell me you ain't managed and you work for a buck, as you sing another line about your pickup truck
I seen your ad in papers and I know what they worth, about the bill you paid for that perfect plaid shirt, singing
Oh oh oh, My County...Where My Country Gone
Oh oh oh, My Country...Sing My Country Song
I'll write another song, baby just for you I'll write a song about us
I'll sing another song just to pay the bills, I'll sing another song about Amarillo Dust
The Devil's In My Savior's Wine
I was washing my clothes, down in the river
The way my preacher man shown
He said I’d be saved, if I washed off this lust
While wearing, these white cotton robes
But HE gave me the grapes, and gave me the feet
To wade towards my doom in the blood
So I curse this angel’s breath, and must is all I eat
While I tell you what I might have done
I can’t swallow this drink, without breaking your heart
But you know that’s what I’m going to do
You know I’m going to do it, though I ain’t made up my mind, you see
The devil’s in my savior’s wine
I was watching your face as it turned into winter
And the sun in my heart turned to grey
Where my lust is a drop, as surely as a river
And your hopes are all washed out into plains
I beat it once in anger, but my failure ain’t complete
Until I’ve burned everybody I know
So I curse the angel’s breath, and must is all I eat
And pretend down here that nobody knows.
I can’t swallow this drink, without breaking your heart
But you know that’s what I’m going to do
You know I’m going to do it, though I ain’t made up my mind, you see
The devil’s in my savior’s wine
Betty Shelby Killed A Man
Betty Shelby killed a man
Twice as fast as you or I could
They counted out no murder charge
But if I'd had done it you know that they would
Betty Shelby killed a dream
of a thin blue line and what it could mean
shaking in fear and scared for her life
she shot him dead center from twenty feet twice
With the voltage flowing through him I hope he don't know
that he lost his life because the law taught her so
when they have enough excuses, the truth we know is useless
we die because the law taught her so.
Betty Shelby will kill again
with another name another sin
As bullets fly for justice's call
we protect the cowards who protect us all.
Brown Liquor
Trials & Tribulations of a Boy Called Man, Part II (Live from Club Du Late)
"Can You get me any cocaine, can you get me any beer?
You see my driver's license, says I don't belong in here
Can you get me whiskey, can you get me any pills?
Girl as soon as we can get lost, I'm pretty sure that I will
Well it's hard to feel shame if you have none at all
I think to myself and I try to recall
what happened that night uptown in that city
where sleep is a waste and truth is quite petty
It's true I was stopped by an old blue and white
He thought I was drunk man, but he wasn't quite right
He waved his two fingers, made me walk the line
Then he say's son "l guess I let you off this time"
I turn to my car he say's "wait a minute
I ain't quite done here with my business
you still broke the law son - drunk, stoned or sober
And I gotta ask you before you go home"
"Are you holdin' any cocaine, drinking any beer?
I see your driver's license says you don't belong round here
Why'd you make that left turn?"
Man, I thought I was right! Stoppin' off at my girlfriend's
headed home to my wife.
"Are you drinkin whiskey poppin any pills?"
Man as soon as I can get gone I'm pretty sure that I will!
So I turned up the street and went on my way
Crawled into bed with the wife where she lay
And I thought to not wake her, yeah I tried to be quiet
But my stumblin' and bumblin was done for a riot
But then she woke up, yelled "what's the point!?"
So I tried to console her and rolled her a joint
She knew I'd been trouble, I'm always misfit
And she likes it that way, I guess cus she asks me
"Did you bring me any cocaine did you bring me any beer
Why am I the only one sittin sober around here
Did you bring me whiskey did you bring me any pills?"
Girl if I can go back out I'm pretty sure that I will