Tom Russell - Hurricane Season lyrics

Hurricane season on the home front All the weak of heart are leaving town Well baby and me ain't up to goin' just yet Maybe we'll just drink until we drown Me, I freshen up a pot of coffee Baby puts the chain across the door And pretty soon she's seein' things that I don't see Like alligators on the bathroom floor Hurricane season in the kitchen Baby throws the eggs against the wall She says, "Don't think I don't know what you been up to, Jack... With that Puerto Rican s*ut lives down the hall... She told me all about it in the laundry room.... She's foldin' her goddamn see-through underwear... She probably gave you some kind of rare tropical disease Now I got it and you don't even care" Like a Hurricane, heh what's your name? Are you Donna or Marie? Are you Margaret or Elaine? Do you paint your toe nails in the mornin'... Yeh, Fire Engine Red or baby blue? Then you roll downtown in a whirlwind Yeh, they ought to name a hurricane for you We saw our bedroom set floating down Piedmont street Palm trees broken by the wind So Baby starts packing the essential things Diet pills, potato chips and gin Next thing I know we're in a row boat We're watching our apartment house go down And Baby's got a jar of gin and tonics She says, "Christ, I hope the next door neighbors drown." Last time I saw Baby's in the Red Cross store She was trying to find a dress she could wear She said, "God protects the drunks and the adulterers... The He drowns everyone who says their prayers..." Now every time I drink a gin and tonic I order up an extra slice of lime Cause that's the way my baby used to drink 'em Back when she was wild and in her prime. Like a Hurricane, heh what's your name? Are you Donna or Marie? Are you Christine or Elaine? Do you paint your toe nails in the mornin'... Yeh, Fire Engine Red or baby blue? Then you roll downtown in a whirlwind Yeh, they ought to name a hurricane for you