JET-BLACK LIMOUSINE

Come all you people
You lovers and you thieves
Listen to my story
Though my case is not unique

Of love taken lightly
Love lost or blind
And the love forsaken
That shadows my mind

And how I escaped
In days that flew like dreams
Down along the southland
In a jet-black limousine 

I was breaking rock in Shreveport
So I came to New Orleans
And fell in love with a Cajun gal
She was long and she was lean

I gave her no explanation
But somehow it seemed she knew
Who I was and what I’d done
On the way to getting through

She said “Daddy, I don’t care
You ain’t got no green
Just take me with you when you leave here
In your jet-black limousine” 

Her kisses were so hungry
Her body rolled like a wave
Like she had nothing to protect
And nothing to save

But we were down in the bottom
Hanging by a string
Looking for deliverance
In any broken thing

When the wasting and wanting
Caught our souls between
I left her without looking back
In my jet-black limousine 

From there I drifted
And I didn’t need to helping hand
To point me down the road
That led straight to no-man’s land

And if she saw me now
She’d never guess
How her love still haunts me
Unseen and unexpressed

’Cause she gleamed like salvation
In a midnight dream
Down along the delta
In a jet-black limousine 

The days are growing short
And time is moving fast
Sometimes I think I’ll look her up
But I just let it pass

’Cause I came for the roses
But stayed for the cash
And the game’s too far-gone
To think of going back

But I can’t get over
How she set me free
Not so long ago
In a jet-black limousine 

Tonight I had too much
But too much ain’t enough
To light my mind as I wind
Down to Council Bluffs

And if it weren’t for my good drugs
I’d be tighter than a drum
Blowing down the highway
To the coast of kingdom come

Looking for you angel
To tell you what I seen
Crossing the Missouri River
In a jet-black limousine