used cars My sister’s in the front seat with an ice Cream cone My ma’s in the back seat sittin’ all alone As my pa steers her slow out of the lot For a test drive down michigan avenue Now, my ma, she fingers her wedding band And watches the salesman stare at my old […]
New jersey turnpike, ridin’ on a wet night `neath the refin’ry’s glow Out where the great black rivers flow License, registration: i ain’t got none But i got a clear conscience `bout the things that i done Mister state trooper, please don’t stop me Please don’t stop me, please don’t stop me Maybe you got […]
Seen a man standin’ over a dead dog lyin’ by the highway in a ditch He’s lookin’ down kinda puzzled pokin’ that dog with a stick Got his car door flung open he’s standin’ out on highway 31 Like if he stood there long enough that dog’d get up and run Struck me kinda funny […]
Well, i had the carburetor, baby, cleaned and checked With her line blown out she’s hummin’ like a turbojet Propped her up in the backyard on concrete blocks For a new clutch plate and a new set of shocks Took her down to the carwash, check the plugs and point Well, i’m goin’ out tonight. […]
I saw her standin’ on her front lawn just twirlin’ her baton Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died From the town of lincoln nebraska with a sawed-off .410 on my lap Through to the badlands of wyoming i killed everything in my path I can’t say that i’m […]
Last night i dreamed that i was a child Out where the pines grow wild and tall I was trying to make it home through the forest Before the darkness falls I heard the wind rustling through the trees And ghostly voices rose from the fields I ran with my heart pounding down that broken […]
There’s a place out on the edge of town, sir, Risin’ above the factories and the fields Now, ever since i was a child, i can remember That mansion on the hill In the day you can see the children playing On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel Steel gates that […]
Well they closed down the auto plant in mahwah late that month Ralph went out lookin’ for a job but he couldn’t find none He came home too drunk from mixin’ tanqueray and wine He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call’m johnny 99 Down in the part of town where when […]
My name is joe roberts i work for the state I’m a sergeant out of perrineville barracks number 8 I always done an honest job as honest as i could I got a brother named frankie and frankie ain’t no good Now ever since we was young kids it’s been the same come down I […]
Well, they blew up the chicken man in philly last night Now, they blew up his house, too Down on the boardwalk they’re gettin’ ready for a fight Gonna see what them racket boys can do Now, there’s trouble bustin’ in from outta state And the d.a. can’t get no relief Gonna be a rumble […]
