This Old Skin-Beautiful South

[ti:This Old Skin] [ar:Beautiful South] [al:Gold Diggas, Head Nodders & Pholk Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Old Skin - Beautiful South [00:14.93]It was '96 in south carolina [00:17.56] [00:18.45]Thats the place and not the goddam year [00:20.76] [00:22.17]I was sittin on the porch out at bobbys place [00:25.05] [00:25.91]Just tuggin on a lukewarm beer [00:28.26] [00:30.15]There i was peepin like that old sidewinder [00:32.42] [00:33.33]Just an inch or so above the mud [00:35.46] [00:37.34]The first to find out that its rainin [00:39.39] [00:40.75]Is the last to find out its a flood [00:42.89] [00:46.30]It was paradise valley nevada [00:48.32] [00:50.30]Not far from where the west was won [00:52.32] [00:53.59]I am the only black face in the whole damn place [00:57.47]Just a raisin in the blazing sun [00:59.67] [01:01.45]Here i am like that old sidewinder [01:04.01] [01:04.73]Just wishin that her eggs ain't hatched [01:07.35] [01:08.69]And the chain i wear has 'em wishin for [01:11.68]The day when it came with a ball attached [01:14.29] [01:17.25]So i'm gonna move right outta this town [01:22.06] [01:25.08]When this old skin stops weighin me down [01:29.60] [01:32.38]This old skin [01:32.89]He was sittin in the very same spot [01:35.59]That otis sat to watch the dock of the bay [01:38.84] [01:40.41]In the very same spot the ships rolled in [01:43.87]Now there's nothing but the mud and the clay [01:46.11] [01:47.22]I'm gonna move right outta this town [01:51.95] [01:54.82]This old skin is weighing me down [01:59.18] [02:02.11]This old skin [02:03.89] [02:10.39]Outside atlanta when the sunshine state [02:13.56]Has just upped itself another degree [02:15.55] [02:17.20]I am the very last orange of the whole years crop [02:20.70] [02:21.24]Hangin dearly to the branch of the tree [02:23.35] [02:24.65]And the wind in the spring couldn't do anything [02:27.60] [02:28.56]So i'm burnin in the sun of the south [02:30.78] [02:32.63]That old sidewinder in the dust below [02:35.29] [02:35.87]I'm just waiting till it opens its mouth [02:38.19] [02:40.93]So i'm gonna move right outta this town [02:45.68] [02:48.71]This old skin finally touches the ground [02:52.96] [02:56.08]This old skin [02:56.82]He was sittin in the very same spot [02:58.83] [02:59.39]That otis sat to watch the dock of the bay [03:02.43] [03:04.35]The very same spot the ships rolled in [03:07.41]Now there's nothing but the mud and the clay [03:09.88] [03:10.95]Now i'm gonna move right outta this town [03:15.42] [03:18.50]This old skin finally touches the ground [03:22.74] [03:25.77]This old skin [03:27.47] [03:29.63]This old skin [03:30.73] [03:32.87]This old skin [03:36.00] [03:40.75]This old skin