The Zeke - Down South

Headed back down South
Gonna see my daddy's mistress
Gonna buy back her forgiveness
Pay off every witness

One more time down South
Sell the family headstones
Drag a bag of dry bones
Make good on my back loans

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have and a little more

Sleep late down South
Look up my former mentors
Live off Yankee winters
Be a landlord and a renter

Create myself down South
Impress all the women
Pretend I'm Samuel Clemens
Wear seersucker and white linens

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have and a little more

Spanish moss down South
Find the heroes of my childhood
Who now can do me no good
Carve their names in dogwood

Chase a ghost down South
Spirits cross the dead fields
Mosquitoes hit the windshield
All documents remain sealed

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have and a little more
I'll give you all I have and a little more

Written by:
Tom Petty

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