"Pine Grove (Madhouse)" lyrics - IAN NOE

Stranded inside a madhouse baby
Down in old pine grove
Been up for days in a drunkard's haze
Just lit up by this stove
We got the band in the basement mom
Fire on that mountain steel
Don't need your plough or that old milk cow
Workin' on this hill
Hang up the wagon wheel

Well here comes the rain she's a stumblin' terror
High on a bathtub gin
Shows me a kid and tells me how she is
How she was back when
So back when I worked for the county clerk
When I wore those finer clothes
Now them days are gone and we ain't got long
But I'm still a mountain rose
Heart like a young Pete Rose

[Chorus:]
Ain't comin' down it's a-roarin' now
High on your river town
Dance on your porch down that old cane torch
Let your mountain sound
Too late to lay it down

Well out on the ridge where they're rollin', ma
Stray dogs and sirens fight
Barred all the doors, nailin' two by fours
Brushed off the coal oil light
And if I slip don't you catch me babe
I'll find that back road bend
I'll turn around like an old bloodhound
Cut out my trail again
Back to my trailer den

[Chorus:]
Ain't comin' down it's a roarin' now
High on your river town
Dance on your porch down that old cane torch
Let your mountain sound
Too late to lay it down