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The Beautiful Loser Society
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Delta Shine
It's a long way to Memphis when you take that levy road But if you're running shine and you're cheating time well it's a way that you best go Cause there ain't now law when the river swamps and the darkness closes in There's just snakes and haints and gators and all kinds of evil wind
Like my daddy come before me, and his come before him I was raised up in that delta mud, knee deep in sin My daddy taught me young how to squeeze that copper dry When I's big enough to hold the wheel I started runnin' delta shine
Runnin' that delta shine Take it up to Memphis on a midnight ride I know the law wants to shut me down If they come across me man, I'll put 'em in the ground
Lawman shot my daddy the summer I turned 18 As I stood there over his grave I swore they never Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com They never would take me
Word come down from Mmphis that the law had had enough They thought that they could dog me around but instead I called their bluff That night I hit the state line bridge and the law was waitin' there That night I hid the bodies man, but I ain't tellin' where
Runnin' that delta shine Take it up to Memphis on a midnight ride When the law tried to shut me down When they come across me man, I'll put 'em in the ground One thing I can tell you is they never will be found Cause there ain't now law when the river swamps and the darkness closes in There's just snakes and haints and gators and all kinds All kinds of evil wind
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