The Fireplace Poker-Drive-By Truckers

[ti:The Fireplace Poker] [ar:Drive-By Truckers] [al:Go-Go Boots] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Fireplace Poker - Drive-By Truckers [00:19.30]The Reverend had his wife done in [00:23.79]By a guy I knew in high school [00:27.94] [00:28.68]He and a friend should do her in [00:32.76] [00:33.59]And make it look like a robbery [00:37.60] [00:48.06]"Here's money son go buy a gun [00:51.86] [00:52.75]And shoot her in the head [00:55.67] [00:57.31]No one who dies testifies [01:01.86]Make sure that she is dead" [01:05.07] [01:06.95]The heathens were paid a thousand bucks [01:11.30]To eliminate someone [01:14.85] [01:16.54]Plus they were paid five hundred more [01:20.37] [01:21.13]To get themselves a gun [01:24.11] [01:45.01]The guy I knew had a hunting knife [01:48.95] [01:49.51]"Why bother with a gun [01:52.77] [01:54.39]She'll still be dead why sweat details [01:58.49] [01:59.07]As long as it gets done" [02:01.97] [02:03.92]The Bible said that Jesus bled [02:08.36]For the sins of the rest of us [02:11.50] [02:13.22]The Reverend had his wife done in [02:17.84]For fifteen hundred bucks [02:20.10] [02:22.69]They knocked upon the door [02:25.34] [02:27.55]Said their car broke down [02:30.14] [02:32.14]And asked if they could use the phone [02:35.78] [02:36.32]For a ride back into town [02:39.65] [02:41.55]They stabbed her several times [02:44.04] [02:46.46]And left her there for dead [02:49.20] [02:51.87]Bleeding and crying out [02:55.07]And gasping for breath [02:57.30] [03:00.72]And they went out the very next night [03:04.02] [03:09.32]And bragged about it [03:12.58] [03:42.40]The Reverend came home from work [03:45.88] [03:47.03]And found the Mrs dying [03:50.43] [03:51.72]Life was falling from her grasp [03:55.33] [03:56.01]But still she lay there trying [03:59.60] [04:01.24]No one will ever know what she told him [04:04.88] [04:05.52]Or know what he told her [04:08.67] [04:10.19]'Cause the Reverend did his wife in [04:14.41] [04:15.13]Fifteen whacks fireplace poker [04:18.82] [04:38.08]The headlines screamed out [04:40.15]"Brutal murder small town preacher's wife" [04:45.25] [04:46.91]The crime rocked all of Colbert County [04:50.58] [04:51.58]As each new fact came to light [04:55.15] [04:55.69]It seems the preacher had a girl [05:00.03]He counseled on the side [05:03.32] [05:04.98]Now the sh*t was coming down [05:08.50] [05:09.29]And she was scared to lie [05:12.48] [05:27.37]The preacher came home from the funeral [05:31.84]And found policemen waiting [05:34.88] [05:36.34]The heathens it seems got coked up and drunk [05:41.21]And did a lot of communicating [05:45.25] [05:45.92]Life is cheap for a couple of creeps [05:49.27] [05:50.25]But this here is the smoker [05:52.80] [05:55.08]Their prints were found all 'round the room [05:58.67] [05:59.39]But not on the fireplace poker [06:03.13] [06:22.61]The preacher's son brought his father home [06:25.95] [06:26.94]And followed him inside [06:29.75] [06:31.44]Shots rang out in the Tuscumbia night [06:36.00]Was he alone when he died [06:39.80] [06:40.66]"Don't call the son for questioning [06:43.72] [06:44.95]That bullet was deserved [06:47.86] [06:49.70]Better call it suicide justice has been served" [06:56.82] [07:03.49]Better call it suicide justice has been served