Down South

Headed back down south
Gonna see my daddy's mistress
Gonna buy back her forgiveness
And pay off every witness
One more time down south
Sell the family headstones
Drag a bag of dry bones
Make good on my back loans

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have and a little more

Sleep late down south
Look up my former mentors
Shake off Yankee winters
Be a landlord and a renter
Create myself down south
Impress all the big men
Who pretend they're Samuel Clemens
And wear seersucker and white linens

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have and a little more

Spanish moss down south
Find the heroes of my childhood
Who now can do me no good
Carve their names in dogwood
Chasing ghosts down south
Spirits cross the dead fields
Mosquitos hit the windshield
All documents remain sealed

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have and a little more
I'll give you all I have and a little more