From the Album: Stompin' Ground (SBS Records)

Samsonite Michelle Malone (STRANGE BIRD SONGS/ASCAP)

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Your suitcase is sitting on my porch

Waiting there for you since 1994

Every since you moved in with me and my mama and daddy

You made me such a happy girl

When you told me that you loved me on the tilt a whirl

But every since our wedding day you been threatening to leave me

I’m working at the diner to pay all of the bills

I try to keep you in cologne and all your vitamin pills

But nothing’s ever good enough

Say goodbye, Samsonite You keep telling me you’re fed up, but then you want to make up

Samsonite, Don’t make me cry anymore

I’m getting kinda rusted, cause my heart has gotten busted

And I know that you got leaving on your mind all the time

Mama said that I should try to be

A little more patient , honey, wait and see

Daddy said that I shouldn’t let you treat me like an open swinging door screen

Honey, I love you like I did back then

But it hurts me so, and I can’t pretend it don’t

Matter to me anymore so I guess we better hire an attorney

I bought you a ticket on the next gray hound

Headed down to Opelika, and I’m city bound

Cause you were never good enough

Say goodbye, Samsonite

You keep on telling me you’re leaving, babe, you best believe it

Samsonite, Don’t make me cry anymore

I’m feeling kinda relieved, cause I know you’re gonna leave me alone

Now that I got leaving on my mind all the time, all the time

Well, go ahead and pack it up!