Slipping through the ether at a ’59 boogie Gonna keep you in my arms gonna let you keep looking At the boy in the corner getting drunk getting horny I can feel through your dress, keep that ass next to me And I bought a little gun, it’s a 35 browning Gonna let my baby run, gonna shoot her to the ground yeah
And I met her as a sparrow on the Tennessee River Worked straight through the winter just to give what I could give her Feather after feather yes she fell off into splinters And as the weather turned better I’d forget we were together She flew off into hills, she’s my cannonball baby If the gun don’t keep her still, get a rope, find something heavy, yeah
I’ve been sleeping in the woods since I traded out my Chevy I’ve been pawning all my goods just to stay iced out my head I feel the blood running and you best believe I’m ready And I feel the lord coming just the very way he said With the beast with seven heads and the 666 And the harlot in my bed turning tricks, tricks, tricks, yeah
And you’ll find the best stuff up in Anderson County Where the running goes rough but the money’s to be found Up there’s my little sister with a boy from Oklahoma I always come back missing fingers but with pockets full of dough And God moves on the water and Christ did walk the earth But the Devil’s got a daughter and she’s in my baby girl, yeah
Before my daddy died he told me how he killed the Germans And how he walked over a mine but the damn thing barely hurt him And he stole the Iron Cross from a Waffen-SS captain And he wouldn’t feel the loss more than he felt the bashing And if war was made by god well it’s a damn fine thing And if men were made by god well they’re a damn fine thing, yeah And if I was made by god and god is just like me I got a fire in my belly and the road’s my open sea And if God moves on the water and birds belong in trees Then she’s blinder than I thought her but she’s wiser than she seems