Unofficial studio version 4
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
You 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
My wife's got another coming in July
She's just laying up and 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
He 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
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...
The above lyrics are for a slow acoustic version of SUGARLAND, recorded in Jan-Feb 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 Murder Incorporated (Flamingo Records) [track 04], The Lost Masters Vol. 19 (Labour Of Love) [track 06], The Genuine Tracks (Scorpio) [disc 3, track 19] bootlegs.
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SUGARLAND [Official studio version]
