Sally...what you doing here? Sally...what you doing here?
Left a jug among the reeds and corn Big Jim bible with its pages torn Tourniquet tight 'round my throwing arm Jump in the briar Ruby lays across the bed You're coming home
Break a fire with a paper match Burn a tatoo on a guy with an eye patch Cut your name off my wooden leg Drop it in the coal Ruby lays across the bed You're coming home
Stroke the bottom of a sterno cup Plywood hand-out going 'cross and up Jack your coat against a backroom wall Hand on a sleeve Ruby lays across the bed You're coming home
A bag of crows on the frontyard fence Chicken-head walking stick paint no pretence Cat knocked-out teeth can't chew on a bone Gimp down the hole Ruby lays across the bed You're coming home
Hopped a mule with a rail-tie sack "No, brother," Jimmy says, "She ain't coming back" Strawman the piney trading gum for wire I waited a long time Ruby lays across the bed You're coming home Sally...what you doing here?