Unofficial studio version 1
One, two, three, four
The rains and the field covered with tar
Can't get a price to see my way clear
I'm sitting down at the Sugarland bar
Might as well bury my body right here
Tractor and combines out in the cold
Shed's piled high with the wheat we ain't sold
Silo's filled with last year's crop
If something don't break here we'll all gonna drop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop, bop
Baby, bop, baby, bop, baby, bop, bop
Wife's got another coming in July
She's laying up and all she does is cry, cry, cry
"Tommy, oh, Tommy, I'm so alone,
Tommy, oh, Tommy, please 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
Going out at night, carrying an empty load
We got a whole lot of grain and ain't got nowhere to go
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop, bop
Baby, bop, baby, bop, baby, bop, bop
Well, if drifting prices don't get no higher
We'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
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop, bop
Baby, bop, baby, bop, baby, bop, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop
Baby, bop, bop, baby, bop, bop
Baby, bop, baby, bop, baby, bop, bop
The above lyrics are for a rockabilly version of SUGARLAND, likely recorded on 30 Jan 1983 at Thrill Hill West, Springsteen's home studio in Los Angeles, CA. See the official studio version for more details.
This version of SUGARLAND was released on The Lost Masters Vol. 17 (Labour Of Love) [track 09] and The Lost Masters Essential Collection Vol. 1 (Labour Of Love) [disc 2, track 17] bootlegs.
Thanks David Varet, downsouth_74, and Pete Russell (Peteadmin at Brucebase) for the lyrics corrections.
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SUGARLAND [Official studio version]
