Copper Canteen-James Mcmurtry

[ti:Copper Canteen] [ar:James Mcmurtry] [al:Complicated Game] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Copper Canteen - James Mcmurtry [00:00.79]Two Three Four [00:03.24] [00:21.30]Honey don't you be yelling at me when [00:24.59]I'm cleaning my gun [00:26.50] [00:30.41]I'll wash the blood off the tailgate [00:33.45]When deer season's done [00:35.32] [00:38.80]We got one more weekend to go [00:41.69] [00:43.31]And I'd like to kill one more doe [00:46.36] [00:56.17]So I'll shovel the sidewalk again [00:59.63]'Cause you're still in a stew [01:01.74] [01:04.59]I bet the bridge tender's widow won't mind [01:08.38]That I can't please you [01:10.31] [01:13.93]She's sure got the run of the men [01:17.08] [01:18.67]Out here where the pickin's are thin [01:22.24]And there's not much to do [01:23.43] [01:31.70]I woke up last night in the grip [01:35.06]Of a fright scared to breathe for [01:37.31]I might make a noise [01:39.19] [01:40.55]This life that we craved so little [01:43.46]We saved between the grandparents graves [01:47.32]And the grandchildren's toys [01:49.54] [01:50.44]We grew up hard and our children [01:54.75]Don't know what that means [01:57.20] [02:00.00]We turned into our parents [02:02.79]Before we were out of our teens [02:05.89] [02:09.20]Through a series of Chevys and Fords [02:12.61] [02:13.61]The occasional spin around the floor [02:16.60]At the Copper Canteen [02:19.03] [02:28.89]Now the big boxes out on the by pass [02:32.10]Are shaving us thin [02:34.44] [02:37.04]I guess we'll hold on a couple more years [02:40.78]Till the pension kicks in [02:42.85] [02:46.29]Then we'll sell all the stock in the store [02:49.88] [02:51.02]Leave only the lock on the door [02:54.00]And wonder what then [02:55.80] [03:03.92]When I wake up at night in the grip [03:07.54]Of a fright and you hold me so tight to your chest [03:11.86] [03:12.85]Then your breath on my skin [03:15.23]Still pulls me back in till [03:16.98]I'm weightless and then I can rest [03:20.94]So if monsignor should pull you aside [03:25.11]As you're leaving the church [03:27.05] [03:30.68]And I'm out on the ice [03:32.61]Dropping lines for the walleye and perch [03:36.00] [03:38.38]Tell him it's not your job to bring me to the fold [03:42.76] [03:43.80]And I'd rather stand out in the cold [03:46.97]And honey I know that the woodpile's low [03:51.48]And you can't close the flue [03:53.44] [03:56.54]So I'll split up a couple more cord's fore [04:00.61]The winter time's through [04:02.12] [04:05.92]Hold on to your rosary beads [04:09.09] [04:10.25]Leave me to my mischievous deeds like we always do