Gravity Sue

Gravity Sue

What's become of you

Gravity sue

Do I have to tell you again

Two old men were walking

walking down the road

their boots were made of raw hide

they carried a heavy load

one of them was a robber

the other was a cop

One said to the other

I think I'm gonna drop

That's okay the first one said but I aint gonna stop

I met a girl on Bleecker street

underneath a lamp

she said she had a speaker

I said I had an amp

We took em to Mcdougal and we opened up a socket

I took off on a bicycle

she took off on a rocket

I took off my sneakers

and she put em in her pocket

Sue was such a downer that they called her gravity

The only man who loved her was a thief from Tennessee

they bought a little farm house

and they burned it to the ground

the thief went crazy screaming

but Sue never made a sound

everyone knows gravity can only get you down

I heard my phone a ringing

I asked who's on the line

He said it was a friend

but it was no friend of mine

So I'll tell you how it's going

if you tell me how it went

He said I have fifty dollars

If you've got fifty cents

and both of them looked quite the same

after they'd been spent

Old Freight 63 train

rolling down the track

rolling straight to Memphis

and then it comes right back

The engineer's a bad man

Don't you mess with him

he carries around a cannon

and he votes republican

the hobos back in Yonkers they all call him Devil Jim

A prong with forty fingers

made a rat with twenty legs

they walked into a restaurant

and ate a dozen eggs

the cook took out a spatula

and waved it in the air

by the time the sherrif came around

only bloody bones were there

the paper said this sort of thing

just happens everywhere

everywhere

When I heard that you were gone

You know I hung my head and cried

I walked out on the highway

and I flagged myself a ride

I got into the backseat

and the door shut with a bang

the old cowboy behind the wheel

said he came from Birmingham

and all the way to New Orleans

this was the song he sang

Gravity Sue

what's become of you

Gravity Sue

do I have to tell you again

tell you again

Gravity Sue

what's become of you

Gravity Sue

do I have to tell you again

tell you again

ooooooo

Gravity Sue!

what's wrong with you

Gravity Sue

do I have to tell you again

tell you again