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Ray Wylie Hubbard - Purgatory Road lyrics
Mama comes in from the kitchen She tells me to fetch my brother She wipes her hands on her apron And says don't be late for supper I walk out on the front porch The sun's abouty to die It's still so hot the old dogs wouldn't bark Even if a car's to drive by There's a blue green Buick And a flat black Ford Jacked up off the ground Daddy's sitting on a stump and he's looking bewildered At the parts lying all around We ain't been no where at all since the Fairlane threw a rod Whatever it is is being damned to hell by my daddy and God CHORUS: Some are here working on a passage to Heaven And others they can't carrry that load A few are left singining the blues on Purgatory Road It is just a mile or so to the edge of town There ain't much of one here now since the factories closed down You got no jobs you got no people you go no businesses The only thing left is the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses Mama she took me to church one time gonan get me baptized Further on down the road, somethinig I realized. Now you mught way it's contempt prior to investigation But nobody seems concerned About their Savior's procrastination. CHORUS Now just past the cemetary with its tumped over tomb stones There's a little tavern that's called the Devil's Backbone It's got your distilled spirits and Tennessee Sour Mash Ans a little sign that says In God we trust, All others pay cash My brother's sitting on a chair in front of an old tweed amplifier He's playing bottle neck slide, steel on wire Now when his mother died and his daddy left my momma she brought him home And even thought he wassn't blood she raised him as her own So now he sings them blues on an old Gibson 160E And he don't even know what color he is cause he can't see. CHORUS |
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