SUGARLAND

Studio version 4


Two, three, four

Grains in the field covered with tarp
Can't get a price to see my way clear
I'm sitting down at the Sugarland bar
You might as well bury my body right here

Tractors and combines out in the cold
Sheds piled high with the wheat we ain't sold
Silos filled with last year's crop
If something don't break, yeah, we'll all gonna drop

My wife's got another coming in July
She's just laying up in bed, all she does is cry, cry, cry
"Tommy, oh, Tommy, I'm so alone,
Tommy, oh, Tommy, oh, won't you stay home"

Pa don't say nothing except when it rains
Sits by the window listening to the sound of passing trains
Roaring out of the night carrying an empty load
We got a whole lot of grain that ain't got nowhere to go

Well, if them prices don't get no higher
I'll fill this duster with gas and set these fields on fire
Sit up on the ridge where the bluebirds fly
And watch the flames rise up against the Sugarland sky

Whoaaa...


Info

The above lyrics are for a slow acoustic version of SUGARLAND, recorded sometime between mid-January and mid-February 1983 at Thrill Hill West, Springsteen's home studio in Los Angeles, CA. This version was released on Murder Incorporated (Flamingo Records) [track 04] and The Lost Masters Vol. 19 (Labour Of Love) [track 06] bootlegs. See the studio version 1 for more details.

Bruce Springsteen -- The Lost Masters Vol. 19 (Labour Of Love)
Bruce Springsteen -- The Lost Masters Vol. 19 (Labour Of Love)
Bruce Springsteen -- Murder Incorporated (Flamingo Records)
Bruce Springsteen -- Murder Incorporated (Flamingo Records)

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Available Versions

List of available versions of SUGARLAND on this website:

SUGARLAND [Studio version 1]
SUGARLAND [Studio version 2]
SUGARLAND [Studio version 3]
SUGARLAND [Studio version 4]
SUGARLAND [Studio version 5]
SUGARLAND [Live 16 Nov 1984 version]
SUGARLAND [Live 18 Nov 1984 version]
SUGARLAND [Cole Gallagher's cover version]

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