Katherine Anne Porter - Barbarisms

The influenza plague turned her hair white overnight

but she survived

Robert said: Katherine, you made a deal with the devil

I could have been priced out of the raffle but i won the odds

Now it’s like I’ve got time for everything

I was just pulling your legs when all that medicine shut my eyes

See, i survived

You slapped and called me your lucky devil

I could have been priced out of the raffle but i won the odds

Now it’s like I’ve got time for everything

I wanna house i wanna lawn

I wanna wife doesn’t want another man

I want a couple kids to love

I don’t want anything to happen to them

I could have been priced out of the raffle but i won the odds

Now it’s like I’ve got time for everything

I thought life was like the smoke inside a log

But i had no matches

I thought life was like the prince inside of the princess’s frog

And i was no princess

I could have been priced out of the raffle but i won the odds

Now it’s like I’ve got time for everything