Stick the target up and watch me miss it On the deck the shore is growing distant If I had a half a mind I'd turn the ship around Stack the bottles up and watch me blow it The grass is yellow and the fence is broken I had potential and I poured it on the ground A legacy, for nobody to claim All this music is just a waste of tape Ah, ah,...Learn More

My lucky star is the sun that's shining up there in the sky My lucky star is brighter than a thousand incandescent lights When the night descends on me and all my luck is gone Sure enough, my lucky star comes rising with the dawn When I'm reeling from a broken heart And living out of an apple cart When I can't get the fish to bite And nothing ever...Learn More

Have you heard it Are you scared Are there times when you wish that a buddy was there Are you lonely 'Cause I get lonely too And there's a little thing I do to make it stop You have regrets You have shame Step inside and you'll see that we're all the same You have secrets Well, I've got a secret too Here's what I do to keep it kept Leave it all...Learn More

Paint the wretched walls with kerosene Light the city as an effigy Pay them double for their treasury And the fire will restore the land Toss your torches in the yellow chaff Smash the cotton gins and telegraph Pile the bodies as to mark the path And the fire will restore the land Oh, traitors of the union, hear our vow And the fire will restore...Learn More

Wolf spider I'm a, a wolf spider Ah, ah Wolf spider I'm a, a wolf spider Ah, ah One night you leave your curtains up One night you leave your curtains up One night I take a peek inside (I take a peek inside) Eight eyes, looking at you In the light of the silver moon, no, no Wolf spider I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, a wolf spider I'm a, I'm a, a wolf...Learn More

Bless the iron in my tools Bless these rails of steel Bless the trees that keep the dirt Firmly 'neath my heels Bless the burlap in the tent That keeps my bindle dry Bless the buzzard circling a mile up in the sky And my scrip A full day's work for a couple hour's pay Precious scrip Buys me bread enough for a half a day And nothing more Pay to the...Learn More

I've been robbing banks since I was knee-high to a man They toss me in the tank and I toss myself back out again Call it what you will I call it a way to make ends meet I don't push a broom I can't whitewash a fence The buggy's full of gas and the trunk is full of ordinance In these troubled times, a fellow's got to know how to survive Where the...Learn More

Kerrie and I Kerrie and me Tangled up like a mangrove tree Kerrie and me Kerrie and me Kerrie and I I hardly notice the years go by Kerrie and I We split our burdens into two Ripening through hardship like a Cactus fruit Kerrie and I (Kerrie and I) Kerrie and me (Kerrie and me) The sweetest pair there could ever be Kеrrie and me Kerriе and...Learn More

It's tough I never thought it'd be this tough A thousand miles from the suburbs is a ways to go This house And all this other worthless stuff It's been a year or more since we went on the patio It's a couple a miles to get to the bloodbank So I guess I got a couple of hours to kill Oh, every time I fall asleep Tell me is it better Is it better Is...Learn More

I wrote to Appomattox on the morn of April ninth My uniform was bloodied and my boots had lost their shine When I reached the rendezvous I found a jubilee Robert Lee was swinging like an apple from the tree Yodel-ey-ee-eh-de-dey-ee Yodel-ey-ee-oh-de-dey-ee Yodel-ey-ee-eh-de-dey-oh-de-dey-ee Lee was just as dandy up there as he was in life His...Learn More

Defoliant Floating in the air Dripping off the leaves and pooling in the mud Defoliant Sloshing in the drum Soaking through my gloves and shining on my brow Defoliant Swirling in my breath Pumping in my blood and swimming through my brain Defoliant I wrote this song for you Open up the sky and let me see the moon I had a dream last night I was...Learn More

I'm buried under a mountain of silt Baby is buried up there on the hill And I still remember the Indianola sway It's hard to believe I'm [?] I carry my polehook out onto the shore And when I [?] the Indianola sway And I take my girl to the market square [?] We listen to the fiddle [?] play I [?] She's singing to me sweet as molasses cane And sway...Learn More