Oxycontin Blues

Well, my daddy worked in the coal mine

Till the company shut it down

Then he sat around and drank his-self blind

Till we put him back underground

Now nothing grows on this mountain

And what's a poor boy to do?

Except to wander these hills forgotten

With the oxycontin blues

Well, I never cared much for whiskey

Because it only made Daddy mean

Wrapped a little bit tight, they tell me

For the methamphetamine

Then my cousin come up from Knoxville

And he taught me a thing or two

Now I'm headed nowhere, but downhill

With the oxycontin blues

Got a dollar bill in my pocket

Got a half a tank in my truck

Going to go and pawn Grandma's locket

Hell, maybe it'll change my luck

Ain't nothing gonna be right no how

Because I know I can't ever lose

This devil that's dragging me down

And the oxycontin blues