Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Cottonseed , by - Drive-By Truckers. Song from the album The Dirty South, in the genre Иностранный рокRelease date: 31.12.2003
Record label: New West
Song language: English
Cottonseed |
| 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, 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 ol' Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased |
| And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed |
| 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 all 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 ol' Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased |
| 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» |