Robert Coleman Trussell: Music
The End of the World Again
(Robert Coleman Trussell)
06-20
FIDDLE: KELLY WERTS
Hot sweat & ashes, juice & jive
Sometimes that's what it takes for a man to feel alive
White boys with habits, black girls buying gin
Good God almighty it's the end of the world again
It's the end of the world again
The end of the world again
Good God almighty
It's the end of the world again
Stranded on the coast with a gal I know
Looking for the place where all the golden people go
We head out to the water & watch the sun go down
Pushing on to China, turning round & round
It's the end of the world again
The end of the world again
Somebody should've told me
It's the end of the world again
You go up on the mountain, look back down below
You ask yourself a question: Where did my baby go
You look down on the city, the lights go on & on
All the way to Texas, I used to call it home
I sell it to the old men from the barber shop
I sell it to the hookers, I sell it to the cops
I sell it every evening, I sell it every day
A hot wind from the desert blows my sins away
It's the end of the world again
It's the end of the world again
I never saw it comin' Mama
It's the end of the world again