Alkali

Lyrics

Alkali, here's mud in yer eye Lost in the desert for twenty-five years or more Whiskey streams, and gold field dreams Lady Luck won't let you dark her door And they tell me your just a ghost of a man Yes I believe it's true And they tell me that you had a woman once But she turned her back on you And you gold minin' hobo, dry well desert rat Alkali, put the bacon on to fry The sun's comin' up and the mule's waiting for his grain A one room shack, By the Santa Fе track The whole lick of earth just scrеamin' for a drop of rain There's a time for work And there's a time for play There's a time for lying down And the road may lead to a rainbow's end A dusty old desert town And you gold mining hobo, dry well desert rat Alkali, there's a buzzard in the sky Counting his chances for picking your skinflint bones You raise your hand, you throw a curse on the land They're gonna find you one day Lying underneath an unmarked stone And the desert is a lonely place For a man to lose his head And they tell me when you start to talking to yourself You might as well be dead And you old gold mining hobo, dry well desert rat Alkali Alkali Alkali You old gold mining hobo, dry well desert rat Alkali Alkali Alkali You old gold mining hobo, dry well desert rat Alkali