Drive-By Truckers

Get Downtown
Kim said, "Jimmy, you better get yourselfOp off of that raggedy couchI'm too pretty to work and I'm tiredOf you uglying up my house"Jimmy said, "Baby, the guys at the topAre doing bad as the guys on the street"Kim said, "The guys at the top ain't aboutTo be paying alimony to me"Get downtown, see what you can findPut your face in someone's that ain't mineLooks like the unemployment bluesAre wearing out your house shoesBaby, left when your boots came untiedJimmy said, "Baby, ain't you seen the newsIt's as far as the eyes can seeForeigners are coming in and doing our jobsFor half of what they would've paid me"You mean half of what you would've madeFor something you've never doneSounds like the bright side to all thisJimmy is you're asking price went upSongtexteNow get downtown, see what you can findPut your face in someone's that ain't mineLooks like the unemployment bluesAre wearing out your house shoesBaby, left when your boots came untiedJimmy said, "Baby, if I work for you're daddyIt's worse than being his son"Kim didn't like what he said one bitAnd it didn't surprise him noneShe said, "My daddy took good enough care of my mamaShe hardly had to say a thing"Jimmy said, "That's part of what's wrong"Kim said, "Don't you say another Aus Songtexte Mania