Putting People On The Moon Lyrics - The Dirty South - Drive By Truckers

Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did 

We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since 

Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they're shutting down 

Goddamned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn 

Double Digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon 

While over there in Huntsville, They puttin' people on the moon 

So I took to runnin' numbers for this man I used to know 

And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow 

I ain't getting rich now but I'm gettin' more than by 

It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try 

If I died in Colbert County, Would it make the evening news? 

They too busy blowin' rockets, Puttin' people on the moon 

Mary Alice quit askin' why I do the things I do 

I ain't sayin' that she likes it, but what else I'm gonna do? 

If I could solve the world's problems I'd probably start with hers and mine 

But they can put a man on the moon 

And I'm stuck in Muscle Shoals just barely scraping by 

Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here 

Seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year 

And we can't afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed 

So she didn't get no chemo so our lives was destroyed 

And nothin' ever changes, the cemetery gets more full 

And now over there in Huntsville, even NASA's shut down too 

Another Joker in the White House, said a change was comin' round 

But I'm still workin' at The Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground 

And all them politicians, they all lyin' sacks of shit 

They say better days upon us but I'm sucking left hind tit 

And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me 

But I bet he drives a Cadillac and I'm broke with some hungry mouths to feed 

I wish I'z still an outlaw, was a better way of life 

I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife 

And if you say I'm being punished. Ain't he got better things to do? 

Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon 

Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon