
Date of issue: 31.12.2008
Record label: Elvis Costello, Hear MusicTM, StarCon
Song language: English
Sulphur to Sugarcane |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
Everywhere I travel the pretty girls call my name |
I give them a squeeze and they shoot me a wink |
I buy their hard-headed husbands a long cool drink |
You better come up smelling sweet |
'Cause you’re a long time stinking |
It’s a little too late to complain |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
Now if you catch my eye and you find that it runs down your leg |
It’s like striking a match pretty hard upon a powder keg |
They tell you from the borders to the waters of the gulf |
If you take all the sugar, you will end up in the sulfur |
And you’re burning, hello baby I’m pleased to meet you |
I wouldn’t do you wrong, honey, I wouldn’t cheat you, honey |
When can I see you again? |
Wrap you up in cellophane |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
When your eyes fill up with brine |
'Cause you’re drowning in wine |
It’s like the last days of Rome |
With the despots and divine |
And there’s no place like home |
For a little doll from China |
It’s a little too late to complain |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
You can go west to Texas |
Go east to Mississippi |
You can run out of money |
You can run out of pity |
Throw open your purse |
Until you’re crying for mercy |
Go to Alabama, escape Louisiana |
I’m digging like a miner |
North and South Carolina |
And then if you continue |
You will end up in Virginia |
The women in Poughkeepsie |
Take their clothes off when they’re tipsy |
But in Albany, New York |
They love the filthy way I talk |
Until they gargle with the finest champagne |
They can’t get the grape and the grain |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
If I could find a piano |
Here in Bloomington, Indiana |
I would play it with my toes |
Until the girls all take their clothes off |
The women knock upon my door in odd and even numbers |
But none of them as wild as I’ve discovered in Columbus |
I gave up married women 'cause I heard it was a sin |
But now I’m back in Pittsburgh, I might take it up again |
Because they gargle with the finest champagne |
They can’t get the grape and the grain |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
Up in Syracuse, I was falsely accused |
But I’m not here to hurt you |
I’m here to steal your virtue |
Down in Bridgeport |
The women will kill you for sport |
But in Worcester, Massachusetts |
They love my sauce |
The women in Poughkeepsie |
Take their clothes off when they’re tipsy |
But I hear in Ypsilanti |
They don’t wear any panties |
Once they gargle with the finest champagne |
They hitch up their skirts and exclaim |
It’s not very far, sugar, it’s not very far, sugar |
Pour a little sugar on me, sugar |
It’s not very far from Sulfur to Sugarcane |
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