Tom Russell - The most dangerous woman in america

^CThree weeks out of prison, he drives the cold Missouri night There's strip malls and abandoned mines out on the left and the ^Amright He ^Cdrives into Mount Olive and the Becker Funeral Home Where his daddy's lying with a cold hard stare, black lung and broken ^Ambones

The most ^Fdangerous woman in America Is buried on the edge of ^Amtown Hey, ^Flook out Ma, another miner's going d^Cown

^CWell, it's darker than a dungeon down in those abandoned mines He's drunk in the house of knowledge, plays Sixteen Tonnes a thousand ^Amtimes It's ^Ccolder than a witch's tit when the wind blows through these streets Old mining men at the Legion Bar, they're staring at their ^Amfeet

The most ^Fdangerous woman in America Is buried on the edge of ^Amtown Hey, ^Flook out Ma, another miner's going d^Cown

^CWell, the wind blows through the empty rooms of a corporation barn There's a little blue man on the kitchen floor, shooting sparks into his ^Amarm There's a ^Cthree-car funeral rolling by, out on the county line "Bye-bye Daddy, you're heaven bound, but right now, so am ^AmI"

The most ^Fdangerous woman in America Is buried on the edge of ^Amtown Next ^Fto the grave where they lay his daddy ^Cdown

And that ^Fnight in the house of knowledge, he ^Embuys him a thirty-eight And ^Amdrives out to the discount liquor ^Cstore on the interstate The most ^Fdangerous woman in America has a ^Emtear froze in her eye For the ^Amsons and daughters of mining men who've lost their way to^Gnight

Yeah, ye^Amah, ye^Fah, ye^Amah, ye^Fah [Verse] Well, ^Cbullets fly and one man dies and one drives off alone To the cemetery at midnight and the grave of Mother ^AmJones He ^Cwhispers low his daddy's name then, "Mother, I've come to pray and pay For all you've done for the mining men, back in the violent ^Amday

The most ^Fdangerous woman in America Smiles deep in the frozen ^Amground And there's ^Fsirens coming through a dead-end mining ^Ctown

The most ^Fdangerous woman in America Is buried on the edge of ^Amtown Hey, ^Flook out Ma, another man is going ^Cdown