The Jacket (Live)

[Verse 1]

It's got a hole in the elbow, bandana pocket

Silver button missin' from the snap at the bottom

I said, "That thing's seen better days, daddy, you should toss it"

And he just said "Darlin', I can’t"

[Chorus]

This thing is two-thousand bonfires, a hitchhike to Boulder

It's kept a million raindrops off your mama's shoulders

It’s my heart on my sleeves, it's my life in these patches

Then he wrapped his arms around me in that old

Jean jacket

[Verse 2]

It's been a bed for a hound-dog, a picnic blanket

There's blood on the collar from a punk who tried to take it from me

Seen Willie Nelson play four or five states

It's the best thing Levi ever made

[Chorus]

We strung four miles of barbed wire in Corinth, Mississippi

Spent a night in county jail with an old drunk and a hippie

It's my heart on the sleeves, it's my life in these patches

With his arms wrapped around me in that old

Jean jacket

[Outro]

It ain't much to look at, but he let me have it

So I could feel his arms around me in that old

Jean jacket

That old jean jacket