Sally Ruby - Intellectual

[Chorus]

Sally ... what you doing here?

[Verse]

Left a jug among the reeds and corn

Big Jim bible with its pages torn

Tourniquet tight 'round my throwing arm

Jump in the briar

[Refrain]

Ruby lays across the bed

You're coming home

[Chorus]

Sally ... what you doing here?

[Verse]

Break a fire with a paper match

Burn a tattoo on a guy with an eye patch

Cut your name off my wooden leg

Drop it in the coal

[Refrain]

Ruby lays across the bed

You're coming home

[Chorus]

Sally ... what you doing here?

[Verse]

Stroke the bottom of a sterno cup

Plywood hand-out going 'cross and up

Jack your coat against a backroom wall

Hand on a sleeve

[Refrain]

Ruby lays across the bed

You're coming home

[Solos]

[Verse]

A bag of crows on the frontyard fence

Chicken-head walking stick paint no pretense

Cat knocked-out teeth can't chew on a bone

Gimp down the hole

[Refrain]

Ruby lays across the bed

You're coming home

[Chorus]

Sally ... what you doing here?

[Verse]

Hopped a mule with a rail-tie sack

"No brother", Jimmy says

"She ain't coming back"

Straw man the piney trading gum for wire

I waited a long time

[Refrain]

Ruby lays across the bed

You're coming home

[Chorus]

Sally ... what you doing here?