Killing Margery Keller - The Ballad of Bourbon Moses

It was a gift that got me in the end girl
I said to her as I bled out on the floor
Colt 45 said they were best for defense yeah
I picked one up for baby's birthday of course
It was good and grand until I met her
Another girl with ruby hair, not your gold
I didn't want nothin' but she persisted
Next thing I know, I'm just losing control

I was living like there ain't no tomorrow
But baby shot me with the gun that I bought
I kept cheatin' like I ain't feel no sorrow
Them pearly gates ain't open, damned that I am caught
She say "baby" like she never did love me
She say "baby, get your ass off the floor
I got another round, an itchy trigger finger and
An excuse to pull and release your soul"

I'm an asshole with no predilection
For hard work, or women I get to know
She's my baby loving life while collections
Are blowin' up my phone and my credit score
So don't you wonder why I ended up elsewhere
Between the legs of some other whore
I'm not a fan a feeling lead in my chest yeah
But I guess I did it all to myself

I was living like there ain't no tomorrow
But baby shot me with the gun that I bought
I kept cheatin' like I ain't feel no sorrow
Them pearly gates ain't open, damned that I am caught
She say "baby" like she never did love me
She say "baby, get your ass off the floor
I got another round, an itchy trigger finger and
An excuse to pull, redecorate your skull"

I fall asleep, I drift off wondering
What will happen at the pearly gates
There my gaze, meets a man who for
40 years lived off of barren landscape
What was his thing, I couldn't remember
Eye for an eye or turn the other cheek
He came to me, and said "Now sonny-
You fucked up and righteous men ain't so pleased"
I begged him "Please Sir, Please forgive me"
"That ain't me, I'm no profit of peace
Wine is wine, ain't no water conversion
But round these parts we just sippin' on bourbon"

BANG! BANG! Thunder cracks, lightning burns through my chest
BANG! BANG! Sirens wail, I'm in an ambulance
BANG! BANG! Eyes shoot open, see my ruby haired girl
BANG! BANG! blood is covering the entire world
OH-oh! We jump a curb, my girl says "that crazy bitch
OH-oh! I found you dyin', saved your life, n' got hitched
OH-oh! Say I do before your ol' baby hits
OH-oh! The ambulance and we end up in a ditch
BANG! BANG! Lead is flying baby settles the score
BANG! BANG! She ain't done, chasing us in her Ol' Accord
BANG! BANG! She tags the preacher brought along by my girl
BANG! BANG! But it's too late I said I do 'fore I wilt

I was living like there ain't no tomorrow (OH-oh)
But baby shot me with the gun that I bought (OH-oh)
I kept cheatin' like I ain't feel no sorrow (OH-oh)
Them pearly gates is now all that I sought (OH-oh)
She said "I DO" like she'll love me forever (OH-oh)
She said "I DO" to save my ugly soul (OH-oh)
I got another chance to finally put a ring on (OH-oh)
And now I sit with Moses sippin' bourbon (OH-oh)
There ain't no tomorrow
I'm feelin' no sorrow
Oh-oh
Oh-oh

Written by:
Gordon Green

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