Puttin' People On The Moon-Drive-By Truckers

[ti:Puttin' People On The Moon] [ar:Drive-By Truckers] [al:The Dirty South] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.04]Puttin' People On The Moon - Drive-By Truckers [00:01.29] [00:11.80]Mary alice had a baby and he looked just like I did [00:16.70] [00:17.63]We got married on a monday and I been working ever since [00:22.52] [00:23.35]Every week down at the ford plant but now they say they're shutting down [00:28.67] [00:29.26]Goddamned reagan in the white house and noboby gives a damn [00:34.38] [00:35.13]Double digit unemployment tva be shutting soon [00:39.96] [00:41.13]While over there in huntsville they puttin' people on the moon [00:45.78] [00:46.59]So I took to runnin' numbers for this man I used to know [00:51.71] [00:52.32]And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow [00:56.95] [00:58.70]I ain't getting rich now but I'm gettin' more than by [01:02.66] [01:03.70]It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try [01:08.34] [01:09.25]If I died in colbert county would it make the evening news [01:13.89] [01:14.83]They too busy blowin' rockets puttin' people on the moon [01:19.41] [01:31.88]Mary alice she quit askin' why I do the things I do [01:36.68] [01:37.48]I ain't sayin' that she likes it but what else I'm gonna do [01:42.29] [01:43.10]If I could solve the world's problems I'd probably start with hers and mine [01:48.09] [01:48.90]But they can put a man on the moon [01:51.10] [01:51.68]And I'm stuck down here just scraping by [01:54.59] [01:56.05]Mary alice got cancer just like everybody here [02:00.09] [02:01.06]Seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year [02:05.88] [02:06.56]And we can't afford no insurance I been 10 years unemployed [02:11.34] [02:12.25]So she didn't get no chemo and our lives they was destroyed [02:17.08] [02:18.67]And nothin' ever changes the cemetery gets more full [02:22.74] [02:23.85]And now over there in huntsville even nasa's shut down too [02:29.07] [02:40.38]Another jokers in the white house said a change was comin' round [02:45.22] [02:45.91]But I'm workin' at the wal mart mary alice in the ground [02:50.73] [02:51.86]And all them politicians they all lyin' sacks of shit [02:56.41] [02:57.14]They say better days upon us but it's sucking left hind tit [03:01.95] [03:02.77]And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me [03:07.63] [03:08.27]But I bet he drives a cadillac and I'm broke with hungry mouths to feed [03:13.87] [03:25.41]And I wish I'z still an outlaw was a better way of life [03:30.22] [03:30.97]I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife [03:36.69] [03:42.55]If you say I'm being punished ain't he got better things to do [03:47.32] [03:47.98]Turnin' mountains into oceans puttin' people on the moon [03:53.12] [03:59.70]Turnin' mountains into oceans puttin' people on the moon