Drive-by Truckers Putting People On The Moon Lyrics

Putting People On The Moon Lyrics

Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did



We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since



Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they're shutting down



Goddamned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn







Double Digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon



While over there in Huntsville, They puttin' people on the moon







So I took to runnin' numbers for this man I used to know



And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow



I ain't getting rich now but I'm gettin' more than by



It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try







If I died in Colbert County, Would it make the evening news?



They too busy blowin' rockets, Puttin' people on the moon







Mary Alice quit askin' why I do the things I do



I ain't sayin' that she likes it, but what else I'm gonna do?



If I could solve the world's problems I'd probably start with hers and mine



But they can put a man on the moon



And I'm stuck in Muscle Shoals just barely scraping by







Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here



Seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year



And we can't afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed



So she didn't get no chemo so our lives was destroyed



And nothin' ever changes, the cemetery gets more full



And now over there in Huntsville, even NASA's shut down too







Another Joker in the White House, said a change was comin' round



But I'm still workin' at The Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground



And all them politicians, they all lyin' sacks of shit



They say better days upon us but I'm sucking left hind tit



And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me



But I bet he drives a Cadillac and I'm broke with some hungry mouths to feed







I wish I'z still an outlaw, was a better way of life



I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife



And if you say I'm being punished. Ain't he got better things to do?



Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon







Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon