Oxycontin Blues

Steve Earle


Well, my daddy worked in the coal mine
Til the company shut it down
Then he sat around and drank hisself blind
Til we put him back underground

Now nothing grows on this mountain
And what's a poor boy to do?
Except to wander these hills, forgotten
With the oxycontin blues

Well I never cared much for whiskey
'Cause it only made daddy mean
Wrapped a little bit tight, they tell me
For the methamphetamine

Then my cousin come up from Knoxville
And he taught me a thing or two
Now I'm headed nowhere but downhill
With the oxycontin blues

Got a dollar bill in my pocket
Got a half a tank in my truck
Gonna go and pawn grandma's locket
Hell, maybe it'll change my luck

Ain't nothing gonna be right no how
'Cause I know I can't ever lose
This devil that's dragging me down
And the oxycontin blues