Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, Jason Isbell - Puttin' People on the Moon lyrics

Mary Alice had a baby and he
Looked just like I did
We got married on a Monday and
I been working ever since
Every week down at the Ford plant but
Now they say they're shutting down
Goddamned Reagan in the White House and
No one there gives a damn

Double digit unemployment
TVA be shutting soon
While over there in Huntsville
They puttin' people on the moon

So I took to runnin' numbers for
This man I used to know
And I sell a few narcotics and
I sell a little blow
I ain't getting rich now but
I'm gettin' more than by
It's really tough to make a living but
A man just got to try
If I died in Colbert County
Would it make the evening news?
They too busy blowin' rockets
Puttin' people on the moon

Mary Alice quit askin' why I
Do the things I do
I ain't sayin' that she likes it
But what else I'm gonna do?
If I could solve the world's problems I'd
Probably start with hers and mine
But they can put a man on the moon
And I'm stuck in Muscle Shoals
Just barely scraping by

Mary Alice got cancer just
Like everybody here seems everyone I know is
Gettin' cancer every year
And we can't afford no insurance
I been 10 years unemployed
So she didn't get no chemo
So our lives was destroyed
And nothin' ever changes
The cemetery gets more full
And now over there in Huntsville
Even NASA's shut down too

Another Joker in the White House
Said a change was comin' round
But, I'm still workin' at The
Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground
And all them politicians
They all lyin' sacks of shit
They say better days upon us but
I'm sucking left hind tit
And the preacher on the TV says
It ain't too late for me
But, I bet he drives a Cadillac and I'm
Broke with some hungry mouths to feed

I wish I'z still an outlaw
Was a better way of life
I could clothe and feed my family still
Have time to love my pretty wife
And if you say I'm being punished ain't
He got better things to do?
Turnin' mountains into oceans puttin'
People on the moon
Turnin' mountains into oceans puttin'
People on the moon