Mother Hips

Whiskey On A Southbound

Mother Hips


Whiskey on a southbound 
bound for Angel Town 
Let those diesel engines pull me down 
Broke-down man at the station house 
crying from his head to his hands 
Lord, it makes me wonder what she said. 
She said I have the strangest kind of innocence 
I'm gonna ask her exactly what that means 
she said her mother likes me, 
and I think I trust them both 
and she treats me good enough for me to write this song 

well my girl got drunk and she's talking to some boys 
from high school 
she knows how to swim but 
I think she wants to drown 
ticketman said she's trying to make me 
a jealous-hearted man 
watching the telephone wires, I nod my head 

Whiskey on the southbound 
Whiskey on the southbound 
Whiskey on the southbound 
bound for Angel town