well there's blackbirds on the turnpike
in the midnight sun
there's roosters on the railroad
look out, here they come!
the sun went down three days ago
& it don't look like it's coming up too soon
but i'm walking like a werefolf &
i've got my compa** pointed at the moon
when my daddy was a-dyin'
on his d**h bed he said "son
don't you never choose to chew
no voodoo flavored bubble gum"
but i chawed myself a jawful
& i blew a bubble shaped just like a skull
it laughed & bit the head off of a baby before flyin' off to hell
oh dolly mae
i'm sad & i can't understand the way
that these birds pa** before my eye
they look like water in the sky
if they ask, just tell 'em i'm living in the graveyard
well the moon became a mirror
& it fell down from the sky
it melted through my vison
& it landed in my eye
i went to see the shaman
& he turned my head into the face of an old man
i went to see the shaman
& he smashed my face to dust with his bare hand
i fell down off the mountain
i got stung by a snake
i ate a moldy cobweb
i puked into the lake
tied my shoes with tadpoles
& i climbed the weirdest tree that i could find
& i sat there for a hundred million years
without a darn thing on my mind
oh dolly mae
i am sad & i can't understand the way
that these birds pa** before my eye
they look like water in the sky
if they ask, just tell'em i'm livin' in the graveyard
there's wolves the size of raindrops
& they smash out thru your face
spiders big as horses runnin' all over the place
i wanna build a barn to put my momma
in to keep her out of sight
put a padlock on the graveyard &
go swimming in the black lagoon tonight
well now i hear a knocking,
knocking on my old back door
there's a dead dog in the basement,
fire on the second floor
the refrigerator's full of blood
& this'll be the last you hear from me
cuz by this time tomorrow
i'll be hitch-hikin' down route infinty.