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Road Sweet Home

from Party At Old Scratchy's by Eli Elkus

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lyrics

Well, here we is...
But there...
We was...

Yeah, I was sittin' in the back of a pickup
lookin' dirty as a dog
but I was feelin' mighty fine
'cause I was thinkin' of a differnt time...

And we was goin' to the Texaco
where I was stakin' out the place for a stick-up
And no, it ain't my style to bust a cap for attention
but when I get on the whickey I got the hands of a henchman

Been a minute since my first taste of crimson
We'd made some miles since the exit to heaven
but I ain't goin' back
Surely my temple is tapped
I'll take a shake for the road
I'll make a home on the go

Home on the Road Sweet Home
Hagglers to stragglers
Riches to rags
Road Sweet Home
One day I'll hang up my rags
but it ain't today
Road Sweet Home
There ain't a bucket of ruckus I'd known...
Not like Road Sweet Home
Only road that I ever known!

We flipped some bastard by the bar fer a profit
They say the water don't fall far from the faucet
and as he let his last holler he just wept for his dollars
I saw his soul fall through the holes in his pockets

When we stopped for a quick sip of poison
That's when my ramblin' feet started hurtin'
and I got the know where to nowhere
wherever that may be
and I ain't seen my baby since she last seen me

Just runnin' rampant - I'm a ne'er-do-well
She tried to tell me take that highway to hell
Well, I took your advice
Darlin', it was lousy and tragic
Halfway to the havoc, honey, I got stuck in traffic

On that Road Sweet Home
Eatin' all them white lines
Blowin' every stop sign
Road Sweet Home
Stop lights are just fer suckers
and it ain't my bag
Road Sweet Home
There ain't a bucket of ruckus I'd known...
Not like Road Sweet Home
Only road that I ever known!

It's been a long day
but not a lonely mile
You won't catch me in the back, babe
Spangin' for smiles
Sit back, relax
and enjoy the driftin'
Ya'll ain't never gonna get
where you think yer goin'

On that Road Sweet Home
Hagglers to stragglers
Riches to rags
Road Sweet Home
One day I'll hang up my rags
but it ain't today
Road Sweet Home
There ain't a bucket of ruckus I'd known...
Not like Road Sweet Home
Only road that I ever known
Sweet Home
Hagglers to stragglers
Tweakers to dreamers
Road Sweet Home
One place, now I'm in the other
and I'm on my way
to that Road Sweet Home
There ain't a bucket of ruckus I'd known...
Not like Road Sweet Home
Only road that I ever known!

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from Party At Old Scratchy's, released April 1, 2020

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Eli Elkus Northampton, Massachusetts

Eli Elkus is a traveling musical storyteller, songmaker, and folk activist. He began sculpting his craft as a young troubadour fishin' for songs by the riversides and busking in the streets. And so it went... The lazy-eyed dreamer and his familiar Bronco the hound wonder wander the US byways bringing folk music to the folks, freewheelin' in their road sweet home - 'JeBus'.
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