Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did
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We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since
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Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they're shutting down
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Goddamned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn
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Double Digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon
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While over there in Huntsville, They puttin' people on the moon
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So I took to runnin' numbers for this man I used to know
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And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow
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I ain't getting rich now but I'm gettin' more than by
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It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try
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If I died in Colbert County, Would it make the evening news?
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They too busy blowin' rockets, Puttin' people on the moon
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Mary Alice quit askin' why I do the things I do
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I ain't sayin' that she likes it, but what else I'm gonna do?
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If I could solve the world's problems I'd probably start with hers and mine
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But they can put a man on the moon
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And I'm stuck in Muscle Shoals just barely scraping by
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Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here
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Seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year
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And we can't afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed
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So she didn't get no chemo so our lives was destroyed
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And nothin' ever changes, the cemetery gets more full
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And now over there in Huntsville, even NASA's shut down too
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Another Joker in the White House, said a change was comin' round
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But I'm still workin' at The Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground
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And all them politicians, they all lyin' sacks of shit
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They say better days upon us but I'm sucking left hind tit
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And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me
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But I bet he drives a Cadillac and I'm broke with some hungry mouths to feed
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I wish I'z still an outlaw, was a better way of life
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I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife
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And if you say I'm being punished. Ain't he got better things to do?
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Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon
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Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon
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Puttin' People On The Moon
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| Drive-By Truckers |
