Lindsey Woolsey

Nothing but tar and turpentine
Vanishing the granduer of the wilderness
Thitherward in the black mud and yellow dust
Twilighted with tallow candles and pigs of lead
My lindsey woolsey shirt is drenched in sweat

Breaking upon a wheel
steeped in the marrow, a foretaste of heaven
Brought to bare this petrified heart
That's like throwing stones to the bottom
 
Tramps and blatherskites lay down their drunken heads 
My lindsey woolsey shirt is drenched in sweat

Oh I belong to this world. I long for the day and the night,
But it won't be long until I leave it...

Only the Lord can know the answer
How can I turn cold yet burn with fever
No providence to fall upon
And no woman to call my name
Just twilighted tallow candles and pigs of lead
My lindsey woolsey shirt is drenched in sweat

Oh I belong to this world. I long for the day and the night,
But it won't be long until I leave it...