Return Of The Grievous Angel

Want you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich and welcome me back to town
Come out on your porch, step into your parlor and we’ll see how it all went down
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
And I remember something you once told me, and I’ll be damned if it did not come true
20,000 roads I went down down down, and they all led me straight back home to you

Because I headed west to grow up with the country
Across those prairies with their waves of grain
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea
I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee

We flew right across that river bridge last night half past 2
The switchman waved his lantern goodbye and good day as went rolling through
Yeah those billboards and stoplights pass by the grievous angel
and now I know just what I have to do

Now and the man on the radio won’t leave me alone
He wants to take my money for something that had never been shown
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea
I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee

All the news I could bring I met up with a king, on his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about the ol’ bible belt lighting out for some dessert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels and a good saloon in every single town
Yeah and I remembered something you once told me, and I’ll be damned if it did not come true
20,000 roads I went down down down, and they all led me straight back home to you
20,000 roads I went down down down, and they all led me straight back home to you