Outsides & Outlaws

Dust on my boots

Red clay on my name

Daddy kept a pistol

Mama kept the shame

Gravel in the driveway

Gravestones on the hill

Uncles in the chain gang

Cousins in the will

Outsiders and outlaws

We were raised on the wrong side

Cutthroat in a necktie

Sunday suit, but the soul cried

Roots tangled round gravestones

Born crooked in the floodlight

Outsiders and outlaws

I’m still walkin’ that rough line (oh yeah)

Courtroom on a Monday

Church pew by the night

Judge knew my granddad

Preacher knew the fight

Whiskey in the Bible

Poker in the pew

Blues man on the corner

Bleeding out the truth

Outsiders and outlaws

We were raised on the wrong side

Cutthroat in a necktie

Sunday suit, but the soul cried

Roots tangled round gravestones

Born crooked in the floodlight

Outsiders and outlaws

I’m still walkin’ that rough line

Boot prints through the kudzu

Gun oil on my hands

Bloodline like a bar song

Carryin’ every man

Outsiders and outlaws

We were raised on the wrong side

Cutthroat in a necktie

Sunday suit, but the soul cried

Roots tangled round gravestones

Born crooked in the floodlight

Outsiders and outlaws

I’m still walkin’ that rough line (yeah)