Drive-By Truckers - Cottonseed lyrics
[Drive-By Truckers - Cottonseed lyrics]
I came to tell my story to
All these young and eager minds
To look in their unspoiled faces
And their curious bright eyes
Stories of corruption, crime and killing
Yes it's true greed and fixed elections
Guns and drugs and whores and booze
It's been a while since I put on
A suit of my own clothes
And even longer since I cast my
Shadow on a church house door
They say every sin is deadly
But I believe they may be wrong
I'm guilty of all seven
And I don't feel too bad at all
I used to have a wad of hundred dollar
Bills in the back pocket of my suit
I had a 45 underneath my coat
And another one in my boot
I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought
A new one anytime I please, d
And I put more lawmen in the
Ground than Alabama put cottonseed
I spent a few years on vacation
Sanctioned by the state I mentioned but see
A man like me don't do no time
Too hard to come back from
The meanest of the mean you see
You lock away and toss the key
But they're just loud mouth punks to me
I've scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying
There's a hole that holds a judge
The last one that I dug myself
And I must admit I was sad to lay him in it
But I did the best I could
Once his Honor grows a
Conscience, well folks
That there just ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out there said, "Daddy
You stay cool tonight
All I need from you is to come
Home and be here by my side
Say what you gotta say to shut
Their Bibles and their mouths
If they was to tie a noose
They'd have to lay their Bibles down"
I ain't here to save no souls
And even if I could
I could never save enough to put
Back half the ones I took
So if they rest in torment
You can't say it's cause of me
They'd long been bought and paid for
Like that fool's in Tennessee
And I used to have a wad of hundred dollar
Bills in the back pocket of my suit
I had a 45 underneath my coat
And another one in my boot
I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought
A new one anytime I please, d
And I put more lawmen in the
Ground than Alabama put cottonseed
There's a pretty girl out there said, "Daddy
You stay cool tonight
All I need from you is to come
Home and be here by my side
Say what you gotta say to shut
Their Bibles and their mouths
If they was to tie a noose
They'd have to lay their Bibles down"
All these young and eager minds
To look in their unspoiled faces
And their curious bright eyes
Stories of corruption, crime and killing
Yes it's true greed and fixed elections
Guns and drugs and whores and booze
It's been a while since I put on
A suit of my own clothes
And even longer since I cast my
Shadow on a church house door
They say every sin is deadly
But I believe they may be wrong
I'm guilty of all seven
And I don't feel too bad at all
I used to have a wad of hundred dollar
Bills in the back pocket of my suit
I had a 45 underneath my coat
And another one in my boot
I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought
A new one anytime I please, d
And I put more lawmen in the
Ground than Alabama put cottonseed
I spent a few years on vacation
Sanctioned by the state I mentioned but see
A man like me don't do no time
Too hard to come back from
The meanest of the mean you see
You lock away and toss the key
But they're just loud mouth punks to me
I've scraped meaner off my shoe
Somewhere, I ain't saying
There's a hole that holds a judge
The last one that I dug myself
And I must admit I was sad to lay him in it
But I did the best I could
Once his Honor grows a
Conscience, well folks
That there just ain't no good
There's a pretty girl out there said, "Daddy
You stay cool tonight
All I need from you is to come
Home and be here by my side
Say what you gotta say to shut
Their Bibles and their mouths
If they was to tie a noose
They'd have to lay their Bibles down"
I ain't here to save no souls
And even if I could
I could never save enough to put
Back half the ones I took
So if they rest in torment
You can't say it's cause of me
They'd long been bought and paid for
Like that fool's in Tennessee
And I used to have a wad of hundred dollar
Bills in the back pocket of my suit
I had a 45 underneath my coat
And another one in my boot
I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought
A new one anytime I please, d
And I put more lawmen in the
Ground than Alabama put cottonseed
There's a pretty girl out there said, "Daddy
You stay cool tonight
All I need from you is to come
Home and be here by my side
Say what you gotta say to shut
Their Bibles and their mouths
If they was to tie a noose
They'd have to lay their Bibles down"