’Tween a Rock

Lyrics

[BISHOP, spoken] Just a matter of time now before he pops up out of that earth All muddy and grinning at us like usual We've all discovered caverns and we've all gotten into scrapes, am I right? Hell [BISHOP] Once when I was underground I heard an awesome sound above my head Thought for sure I's dead In a flash and like a flood Boulders, rocks and sand and mud Smashed me down [DOYLE, spoken] Is this true? [BISHOP] Uh huh I cussed and screamed And hollered and swore Goddamn, I almost tore my arm off to do it But that's how you get through it It weren't no picnic, but by damn it was done 'Tween a rock and a hard place I been there plenty often 'Tween a rock and a hard place And I ain't in a coffin If you look death right in the face The hardest place will soften That's where I thrive, I'm still alive At the reaper I'm a-scoffin', I'm a-scoffin'! Ooh [JEWELL, spoken] Oh, I've been in a much tougher situation myself, if I do say so [BISHOP, spoken] Oh, really? [JEWELL, spoken] Yes, oh, really In fact, yes, really [JEWELL] One day I'm fishin' in my boat Fall asleep and start to float Down the river [BISHOP, spoken] Down the river [DOYLE, spoken] Like a baby in a cradle [JEWELL] When I wake, the water's white It takes me all my might To keep from flippin' Round and around she's a-whippin' [DOYLE] Whippin'! [JEWELL] 'Fore I even have time to think I'm bobbin' around, in the drink Cascadin' down, to the brink Of a waterfall One hundred fifty-five foot tall! [DOYLE, spoken] Ha! [JEWELL] I thought, if I'm goin' straight to hell You know what, Lord, I might as well Enjoy it some 'Cause Devil, here I come! I said Hee hee Hee hee hee Ooh [BISHOP, DOYLE & JEWELL] Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo Doo doo doo doo doo doo [JEWELL] I must've had a pretty good landin' 'Cause here I am before you standin' Am I not? [BISHOP, spoken] Tell it! [JEWELL] I'm tough as snot [BISHOP, DOYLE & JEWELL] It weren't no picnic but by damn it was done [Other LOCALS enter, having heard the end of JEWELL's story.] [LOCAL 1, spoken] Well, ain't that remarkable, Jewell Estes [DOYLE, spoken] That's not much of a story, Jewell I mean, I was a soldier [LOCAL 1, spoken] Did you know Bee was a soldier? [LOCAL 2, spoken] He wasn't a soldier [DOYLE] Nineteen hundred seventeen Met the Germans, they was mean [LOCAL 3, spoken] Uh, Germany, where? [DOYLE] On the battlefield Thought my fate was sealed [BISHOP, spoken] There he goes [DOYLE] Shot a hole clean through my stomach [LOCAL 2, spoken] Show us the hole [DOYLE] Weren't much left to my stomach When they was done Thought they had the battle won! Couldn't move an inch, couldn't get away Gushin' like a pig on slaughter day Didn't look like no bouquet of daffodils No sir! And they was comin' closer With my last mortar shell I blew those Germans back to Hell Where they belong! Correct me if I'm wrong [BISHOP, DOYLE, JEWELL & LOCALS] It weren't no picnic but by damn it was done [BISHOP] And by damn it was fun [DOYLE] Under fire [BISHOP & JEWELL] Underground [LOCALS] Up a tree [BISHOP, DOYLE, JEWELL & LOCALS] That's me! 'Tween a rock and a hard place I been there plenty often 'Tween a rock and a hard place And I ain't in a coffin If you look death right in the face The hardest place will soften That's where I thrive, I'm still alive [DOYLE, JEWELL & BISHOP] That's where I thrive, I'm still alive [BISHOP, DOYLE, JEWELL & LOCALS] That's where I thrive, I'm still alive At the reaper I'm a-scoffin', I'm a-scoffin' I'm a-scoffin', I'm a-scoffin' At the reaper I'm a-scoffin'! [BISHOP, DOYLE, JEWELL & LOCALS, spoken] Yoo hoo! (Yeah, yeah)