Shakey Graves - Proper Fence lyrics

rate me

Just a mile down the road

And a street or two away

There's that freckled

Misses that I want

Most every day

And to the home of her father

Gonna drag my sore old feet

Tell him, "shes the woman

Can wake me from my sleep"

[Chorus]

She said, "kiss me"

Lord, I listened, but I haven't gone back since

Oh, you know I curse the mind

For building a proper fence

Yeah, I will roll

And I will suffer

Curse the soil and curse the stones

Keep my eyes a peekin'

For that girl

And the rest of her bones

I've known her for a year

Only seen her seven days

One week two many

Too keep a man like me away

[Chorus]

So three years after, I found her doorstep

I found her shoes, and found her kin

They told me, "old grim reaper

Done come turned her in"

Pourin' liquor on the stone

That marks my lost and gone

I will whippor wail

And sing her funeral song