Some folks say some farm boy up from Tennessee
Taught it all to Ruby, then just let her be
Her Daddy tried to hide it, tried to keep things cool
But something happened to Ruby, she broke down to a fool
The headlines say that a boy disappeared and everybody thinks he died
'Cept a crazy lady with a secret lover who keeps her satisfied
It’s so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain
The radio by her side, Angie, baby.
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin’ flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Old black water, keep on rollin’
Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me
Old black water, keep on rollin’
Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You’ll lose your mind and play
Free games for may
See Emily play
Soon after dark Emily cries, ah ooh
And Aubrey was her name
We tripped the light and danced together to the moon
But where was June?
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight,
Come out tonight, come out tonight.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon.
I’ll go home and get my panties
You go home and get your scanties
And away we’ll go. Mmm-mmm-mmm
Off we’re gonna shuffle, Shuffle off to Buffalo
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about mudflaps, my girl’s got 'em!
Big bottom, drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
You other brothers can’t deny
When a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face you get sprung.
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin’ out over the line
City traffic’s movin’ way too slow
Drop the pedal and go, go, go
It seems such a waste of time
If that’s what it’s all about
If that’s movin’ up then I’m movin’ out
Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Aw, but they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done
Only the good die young
Kneel at the cross,
Christ will meet you there.
Come while He waits for you.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we first begun
The Mariner’s bound to tell of his story
To tell his tale wherever he goes
To teach God’s word by his own example
That we must love all things that God made
Well it was all of sixty five years ago
When the world was the street where she lived
And a young man sailed in a ship on the sea
With a picture of Veronica