Lay My Body Down

So I came all the way from Trenton

Spent a full night at the station

In a suitcase made of calico brown

Now I'm almost out of money

And I'm sleepy and hungry

I wanna lay my body down

I don't wanna cause trouble

I don't need a bath of bubbles

Just a floorboard for the pavement on the ground

I'll take a steeple or a stable

Or a dining room table

Just to lay my body down

Lay, lay my body down

So I go back to see my baby

Since no other place'll take me

When I stop to brush my hair back with a comb

And I can almost see our porch light

And it's shining like a northern light

God how I wanna be home

To lay, lay my body down

Lay, lay my body down

But some joke from Albuquerque

With some white wine and a turkey

Come to entertain my girl while I was gone

This bear thinks everything is funny

He's got his paws into my honey

Then he lay her body down

Now just as every schoolyard has a teacher

Every chapel has a preacher

Every angry man has 6 shells to a round

I've been an honest man

I've walked as straight as I can

But I'm gonna lay his body down

Lay, lay his body down