Clementine [To AJ]: All this. It’s worth it. All those times you’d ask me if we’d find a home… All I could ever tell you was “we’ll see”. And your face would fall every single time. But you want to know something I didn’t tell you? I never had a plan. I never knew where we were going. I never knew anything. I just fought and fought and fought, and hoped you didn’t notice. Hoped we’d find something before you did. Did I do a good job?
Sometimes I don’t know where
This dirty road is taking me
Sometimes I don’t know the reason why
So I guess I’ll keep gambling
Lots of booze and lots of rambling
Well, it’s easier than just waiting around to die
Well, one time, friends
I had a ma, I even had a pa
He beat her with a belt once ’cause she cried
She told him to take care of me
She headed down to Tennessee
Well, it’s easier than just waiting around to die
Then I became of age
And I found a girl in a Tuscaloosa bar
She cleaned me out and she hit it on the sly
Well, I tried to kill the pain
I bought some wine, I hopped a train
Well, it was easier than just waiting around to die
Then a friend said he knew
Where some easy money was
We robbed a man and brother, did we fly
But the posse caught up with me
And dragged me back to Muskogee
And now it’s two long years, just waiting around to die
Now I’m out of prison
And I got me a friend at last
And he don’t steal or cheat or drink or lie
Well, his name is Codeine
And he’s the nicest thing I’ve seen
And together, we’re gonna wait around to die
Little girl, little girl, don’t lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines where the sun never shines
We’ll shiver the whole night through
My daddy was a railroad man
Killed a mile and a half from here
His head was found in the driver’s wheel
His body was never found
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
We’ll shiver the whole night through
You’ve caused me to weep
You’ve caused me to mourn
You’ve caused me to lose my home
Little girl, little girl, where’d you sleep last night?
Not even your mother knows
In the pines, in the pines where the sun never shines
We’ll shiver when the cold winds blow
wasted 