Powderfinger
Look out Mama there's a white boat coming up the river
- Look out Mama there's a white boat coming up the river
- With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail
- I think you'd better call John
- Because it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
- And it's less than a mile away
- I hope they didn't come to stay
- It's got numbers on the side and a gun
- And it's making big waves
- Daddy's gone my brother's out hunting in the mountains
- Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy-Lou
- So the Powers That Be left me here to do the thinkin'
- And I just turned twenty-two
- I was wondering what to do
- And the closer they got
- The more those feelings grew
- Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassuring
- He told me Red means run son numbers add up to nothing
- But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it coming
- Raised my rifle to my eye
- Never stopped to wonder why
- Then I saw black
- And my face splashed in the sky
- Shelter me from the powder and the finger
- Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
- Think of me as one you'd never figured
- Would fade away so young
- With so much left undone
- Remember me to my love
- I know I'll miss her
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