Across the Tracks

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Caskey Russell

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Me and my old lady sitting in the shade talking about the money I ain't made
Saying, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight
If I could I surely would stand on the rock that Moses done stood
Say, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight

Them docks is miserable work, them docks is terrible pay
But scabs can't afford to live in town anyway
I found a scab frozen dead stiff as steel in the rebar shed
He'd stuck his glove to an icy pane, a middle finger in the air

Me and my old lady sitting in the shade talking about the money I ain't made
She said, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight
If I could I surely would stand on the rock that Moses done stood
Said, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight

My life's a roof with no ladder down; a ditch dug in unsteady ground
A roof torn off in ten years' time, a ditch will swallow me
Tar smoke haunts my sleep, hammer strokes smash my dreams
A bottle awaits the end of work to relieve me of my pain and pay

Me and my old lady sitting in the shade talking about the money I ain't made
I said, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight
If I could I surely would stand on the rock that Moses done stood
Said, hey boy, can't you line them, or lie on the tracks tonight

In church they said, "Labor is God's measure of a Man"
What I've learned instead is labor is worthless and God is deaf

Me and my old lady sitting in the shade talking about no money I ain't made
Said, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight
If I could I surely would stand on the rock that Moses done stood
Said, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight

My life has set as hard as that concrete in a ten-yard
Truck that's been sitting in the sun all day
Mansions on far off hills hide a safety I'll never feel
F*ck them. We'll get them bastards one day

Me and my old lady sitting in the shade talking about the money I ain't made
Saying, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight
If I could I surely would stare on the rock that Moses done stood
Saying, hey boy, can't you line it or lie on the track tonight

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