Todd Snider - Doublewide Blues Lyrics

Doublewide blues
I got the blues, doublewide

V-neck t-shirt, with a mustard stain
Rollin' up a hose, outside in the rain
He's been my neighbor since seventy-nine
'Course he was in prison most of that time

Ever since then he just ain't been right
His old lady works days and they fight most nights
Laid off and blown off, pissed off on booze
Doublewide blues

Metallica song blastin' out from two trailers down
It's them cut-off t-shirt numbchuck kids comin' around
Tonight they'll get drunk, try to get laid
End up in a fight out behind the arcade

You know one of them little shits broke my window last spring
I told his mama, she did't do anything
She works two jobs, he runs loose
Doublewide blues
Doublewide blues
I got the blues, doublewide

My buddy Jimmy, now his trailer's cool
He got him a deck with one of them blue plastic pools
Workin' construction, he builds speck homes
His old lady left him, now he's down there alone

My friend Anita, she loves him, but he don't know
He's so busy chasin' my neighbor's wife, Flo
Soap opera heaven without all the clues
Doublewide blues
Doublewide blues
I got the blues, doublewide

Wild Bill the manager he keeps to himself
The war took his smile like them pills took his health
Too old to run with the Klan anymore
US Flag hangin' outside his door

I sit here watchin' all this nothin' go on
I don't get out much now since mama's been gone
Sometimes it's nice, havin' nothin' to lose
Doublewide blues
Doublewide blues
I got the blues, doublewide

Take me home boys
I think I'm drunk