D bm a
Tough mama, meat shaking on your bones
D bm a
I'm gonna take you down to the river and get you stoned.
Bm a
Papa's on the highway with that steel driving crew
Bm f#m em g
Sister's in the big house her working days are through
C g a
Tough mama, can I blow a little smoke on you?

Dark beauty, won't you move it on over and make some room?
It's my duty to bring you down to the field where the flowers bloom.
Ashes in the furnace, dust on the rise,
You came through it all the way, flyin' through the skies.
Dark beauty with that long night's journey in your eyes.

Sweet goddess, born of a blinding light and a changing wind,
Now, don't be modest, you know who you are and where you've been.
Jack the cowboy went up north he's buried in your past.
The lone wolf went out drinking that was over pretty fast.
Sweet goddess your perfect stranger's comin' in at last.

Silver angel, with the badge of the lonesome road sewed in your sleeve,
I'd be grateful if this golden ring you would receive. today on the
Countryside it was a-hotter than a crotch, I stood alone upon the ridge
And all I did was watch. sweet goddess it must be time to carve another
Notch.

I'm crestfallen, the world of illusion is at my door,
I ain't haulin' any of my lambs to the marketplace anymore.
The prison walls are crumblin', there is no end in sight,
I've gained some recognition but I lost my appetite.
Dark beauty meet me at the border late tonight.

• Ain't No More Cane
• Akua Tuta
• American Roulette
• Ancestor Song
• Apple Suckling Tree
• Back to Memphis
• Beautiful Thing
• Between Trains
• Blaze of Glory
• Blue River
• Brainwash
• Breakin The Rules
• Broken Arrow
• Carry Me
• Change is Good
• Cherokee Morning Song
• Clothes Line Saga
• Crash on The Levee[Down in The Flood]
• Davy's on The Road Again
• Day of Reckoning
• Don't Ya Tell Henry
• Driftin' Away
• Evangeline
• Fallen Angel
• Forever Young
• Ghost Dance
• Gimme a Stone
• Go Back to Your Woods
• Goin' to Acapulco
• Golden Feather
• Hang up My Rock'n Roll Shoes
• Havana Moon
• He Don't Love You
• Hell's Half Acre
• Hold Back The Dawn
• In The Blood
• It is a Good Day to Die
• Java Blues
• Leave Me Alone
• Lo & Behold
• Mahk Jchi
• Making a Noise
• Million Dollar Bash
• New Mexicoe
• Night Parade
• Nothing Was Delivered
• Odds & Ends
• Once Upon a Time
• One Too Many Mornings
• Open The Door, Homer
• Out of The Blue
• Rain Down Tears
• Rattlebone
• Resurrection
• Rick
• Ruben Remus
• Sacrifice
• Shake It
• Shake This Town
• Showdown at Big Sky
• Sign of The Rainbow
• Sip The Wine
• Skinwalker
• Small Town Talk
• Soap Box Preacher
• Somewhere Down The Crazy River
• Sonny Got Caught in The Moonlight
• Stomp Dance
• Sweet Fire of Love
• Sweet Romance
• Take Your Partner by The Hand
• Testimony
• That's My Home
• The Code of Handsome Lake
• The Last Waltz
• The Last Waltz Refrain
• The Lights
• The Sound is Fading
• The Stones I Throw
• The Well
• Tiny Montgomery
• Tired of Waiting
• Tombstone
• Too Much of Nothing
• Tough Mama
• Twisted Hair
• Unbound
• What a Town
• What About Now
• Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood
• Yea! Heavy & a Bottle of Bread
• You Ain't Goin' Nowhere