The Beautiful Loser Society Delta Shine lyrics

It's a long way to Memphis when you take that levy road
But if you're running shine and you're cheating time well it's a way that you best go
Cause there ain't now law when the river swamps and the darkness closes in
There's just snakes and haints and gators and all kinds of evil wind

Like my daddy come before me, and his come before him
I was raised up in that delta mud, knee deep in sin
My daddy taught me young how to squeeze that copper dry
When I's big enough to hold the wheel I started runnin' delta shine

Runnin' that delta shine
Take it up to Memphis on a midnight ride
I know the law wants to shut me down
If they come across me man, I'll put 'em in the ground

Lawman shot my daddy the summer I turned 18
As I stood there over his grave I swore they never
They never would take me


Word come down from Mmphis that the law had had enough
They thought that they could dog me around but instead I called their bluff
That night I hit the state line bridge and the law was waitin' there
That night I hid the bodies man, but I ain't tellin' where

Runnin' that delta shine
Take it up to Memphis on a midnight ride
When the law tried to shut me down
When they come across me man, I'll put 'em in the ground
One thing I can tell you is they never will be found
Cause there ain't now law when the river swamps and the darkness closes in
There's just snakes and haints and gators and all kinds
All kinds of evil wind