Story Behind The Song
Angry hillbilly chick finally breaks the yoke of co-dependancy and thus empowered murders her no-good philandering drunken hillbilly man, packs up the kids, hitches up the mule and never looks back.
Song Description
Angry chick revenge song with a muddy ill-defined moral message
| Song Length |
2:42 |
Genre |
Country - Bluegrass, Country - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Heated, Gloomy |
Subject |
Feminism, Femininity |
Lyrics
Turn down your lamp let your long hair down
long hair down long hair down
turn down your lamp let your long hair down
see where your man has gone
He's gone to town just to drink and sin
drink and si drink and sin
He's gone to town just to ramble around
ramblin all nite long
your children are hungry you aint got no coal
aint got no coal aint got no coal
your childrens' cries burn right into your soul
and see where your man has gone
refrain :
turn down your lamp in the darkest nite
hate fills a heart where love burned so bright
turn down your lamp let your long hair down
see where your man has gone
she took down and loaded that steel 44
steel 44 steel 44
she sat down and waited by the kitchen door
waited there all nite long
far away a cabin's burning down
burning down burning down
aint nothing left there but ashes and stone
and a grave for a man gone wrong