Ballad Of Billy Jo Mckay Lyrics - Soul's Core - Shawn Mullins

My name's Billy Jo Mckay 

Just turned sixteen yesterday 

I'm gonna get the nerve one day 

To get outta here 

My mom passed on three years ago they said 

It was cancer and it took her slow 

Ever since then I've been 

Sayin' no to my daddy and my tears 

If you come down our road 

You gotta watch the bump 

Right there across from 

The garbage dump 

You can find me out back 

Jumpin' on the trampoline 

When the springtime 

We'll be skippin school 

We sneak off 

To the Cantrell's swimming pool 

Man, you can't get much cooler 

Me and my friend Darlene, yea 

[Incomprehensible] 

My granddaddy's hands are worn 

From fifty years of growin' corn 

Back behind the house where 

I was born, before he had to sell 

My cousin Eddie 

He got shot in the Walmart parkin' lot 

This little town's changed a lot 

He said, "It hurt like hell" 

My name's Billy Jo Mckay 

It's a hot Mississippi summer Saturday 

Daddy's on the farm porch 

With uncle Dave drinkin' Dixie beer 

Sixteen years of being bored 

Window's open, forget the door 

Hope there's some gas in the 

Old man's Ford 'cause I'm outta here 

I'm outta of here, I'm outta of here 

I'm outta of here, I'm outta of here 

See I'm outta of here 

Maybe I'll go down to Biloxi 

Maybe to new Orleans 

Maybe Hotlanta